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it is not necessary to also add corresponding verses in the haftara.
Rava strongly objects to this baraita: But there is the haftara that begins with the words: “Add your burnt offerings” (Jeremiah 7:21–28), which does not have 21 verses, and nevertheless we read it. The Talmud answers: There it is different, as the topic is completed in fewer than 21 verses, and it
The Talmud asks: But is it true that where the topic is not completed, we do not read fewer than 21 verses? Didn’t Rav Shmuel bar Abba say: Many times I stood before R' Yoḥanan as a translator, and when we had read 10 verses he would say to us: Stop. This indicates that a haftara need not be 21 ve
Mishnah: One does not recite the introductory prayers and blessing [poresin] before Shema; nor does one pass before the ark to repeat the Amida prayer; nor do the priests lift their hands to recite the Priestly Benediction; nor is the Torah read in public; nor does one conclude with a reading from
And one does not observe the practice of standing up and sitting down for the delivery of eulogies at a funeral service; nor does one recite the mourners’ blessing or comfort mourners in two lines after the funeral; or recite the bridegrooms’ blessing; and one does not invite others to recite Grace