[Avodah] Right to haftara

[Joseph Kaplan]

Not an answer to the question but a related story. A shul received a set of clafs for haftorot and decided that they should be used every Shabbat. But since most people couldn’t say a haftorah from a claf, the procedure was to call up the oleh, he would make the brachot for the haftorah, the ba’al koreh would read the haftorah from the claf, and then the oleh would say the ending brachot. 

Sounds like a good compromise. Yes, except the ba’al koreh didn’t know all the haftorot from the claf so he had a Chumash on the side which he would use, a bit (but only a bit) surreptitiously, to read many of the haftorot. And so the game continued for many years. 

Joseph
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