[Avodah] Correcting Baalei Kriah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 16/07/17 15:20, Lisa Liel wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe there is a chiyuv for the haftarah to be read, let 
>> alone for anyone to hear it, therefore it can't be invalid.
> 
> But we say a bracha before and after the haftarah.  Doesn't that imply 
> that it's not just casual reading?

It's not just casual reading, or even just a minhag; it's takanas 
chachamim that it be read, but there's no chiyuv that one (or even a 
tzibur) needs to be "yotze", unlike krias hatorah which is a chiyuv of 
the tzibur.  We can derive this from the fact that if the tzibur missed 
leining one week it must make it up the next week, while it does not 
make up a missed haftara.

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