[Avodah] haftarah

[Akiva Miller]

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R' Joel Rich asked:
> I recently was in a Shul in Aretz where they said the haftara
> from a Chumash yet the baal korei read it for the oleh.
> Apparently this is standard practice in this Shul – has anyone
> seen this done elsewhere?

The standard practice in my shul is that one person reads the haftara from
a Tanach, and most people just listen, though some do read along.

Sometimes, someone will have a yahrzeit and therefore wants to lead the
haftara, but is unable to actually read it himself. So he says the brachos
before and after, while someone else actually reads the navi from the
Tanach.

(Artscroll's "Mourning in Halacha" by Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Goldberg
explains that it is not the reading of the haftarah that is important, but
the saying of the brachos. In chapter 40 footnote 32 he writes, "Yalkut
David (Yoreh De'ah #376) explains that the mourner reads the Haftarah of
the Prophets, because the blessings accompanying this reading include
prayer for the Redemption of Israel and the sanctification of the name of
Hashem, Blessed be He as in Kaddish.")

Akiva Miller
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