Our parashah and haftarah both feature something totally supernatural, other-wordly, and impossible to imagine: God’s revelation! Check out some of the similarities between the two.
Shabbat this week is called Shabbat Hazon, named after the first word in our haftarah. Hazon means “vision.” Our haftarah includes a grim vision of destruction from the prophet Yeshayahu.
The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur has a special name: Shabbat Shuvah. “Shuvah” means “return” or “repent.”
The opening word of our haftarah is—you guessed it—shuvah. The shoresh ש.ו.ב (to turn or repent) comes up quite a few times in the haftarah.
We continue this week with #3 of the seven-part series of comforting haftarot for the weeks after Tisha B’Av. This one features the prophet Yeshayahu promising a wonderful future for the Jewish people.
Our haftarah
is the second in the three sad haftarot that we read in the weeks leading up to Tisha B’Av. This week, we hear from the prophet Yirmiyahu who delivered his message in the final years before the destruction of the first temple.