On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Michael Makovi <<a href="mailto:mikewinddale@gmail.com">mikewinddale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Cantor Wolberg <<a href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> There is a machlokes amongst the Poskim whether the reading of Parshas Parah<br>
> is a Torah obligation today.<br>
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What I'm curious about: It says of Parshat Parah "zocher", and the<br>
Gemara says that zocher means read it from a Sefer Torah.<br>
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But if so, we have five other zochers in the Torah (see your Artscroll<br>
siddur after Shacharit - page 176f in the Nusach Ashkenaz), but in<br>
only two of the six zochers do we read anything from a Sefer Torah.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>I was going to say that in all these cases we read the pesukim themselves from the Sefer Torah during the annual cycle.<br>
<br>But this prompts the inverse question: why do we need Parshat Zachor? We read the same pesukim every year in Parashat Ki Tetze, why aren't we yotzei from that?<br></div></div>