The Arba Parashiot | More than Meets the Eye

The Arba Parashiot: More than Meets the Eye, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom

The annual cycle of Keriat haTorah is punctuated in the weeks before Pesach with the addition of the "Arba Parashiot" - four special readings read as the Maftir on those weeks. We analyze the historic-halakhic reality of this practice, along with the hashkafic implications of these readings, coming as they do in the weeks leading up to Pesach.

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