From: dattier@gagme.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Subject: Re: What is the Haftorah on Saturday (April 4)?
Organization: Gagme Public Access Hermitage, Chicago, Illinois  60656-1252
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 03:20:19 GMT

stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) wrote in
<1992Apr2.144720.9150@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>:

| I've just been asked to read the Haftorah for this Saturday, and while
| I know the Hachodesh one is read instead of the Shabbat and Rosh Hodesh,
| I've also heard about a slightly different rule or custom.

I saw Stan's article too late, but what the heck.

| What I was told by one source is that when a special Haftorah overrides
| the Rosh Hodesh or Machar Hodesh haftorah, that the first line of the
| Rosh Hodesh (or Machar Hodesh) should be read, then the full regularly
| scheduled Haftorah, and then the last line of the Rosh Hodesh (or
| Machar Hodesh) Haftorah.  Thus, I would be expected to preface the
| Hahodesh Haftorah with the first verse of the Rosh Hodesh Haftorah
| and conclude with the last verse of the Rosh Hodesh Haftorah before
| the final blessings.

That differs from what I know of.

There are two practices:

1.  Just read the haphtarah for Shabbat HaChodesh.
2.  Read the haphtarah for Shabbat HaChodesh, and THEN the first and last
    psuqim of HaShamayim Kis'i (the haphtarah for Shabbat Rosh Chodesh),
    which are actually the first and second-to-last of the text: Isaiah
    66:1,23.  But the two psuqim from HaShamayim Kis'i go after, not around,
    the haphtarah for Shabbat HaChodesh.

| The first time I heard about this was when I was at a Bar Mitzvah
| on 29 Av.  The question was whether the correct Haftorah was the Machar
| Hodesh one, the scheduled Haftorah of Consolation for that week, or
| to sandwich the Haftorah of Consolation between the first and last
| verses of Machar Hodesh.

The more tangled question on 29 Av or 30 Av is whether to read `Aniyyah
So`arah then and the short Ronni `Aqarah two weeks later or to read Machar
Chodesh or HaShamayim Kis'i then and the long Ronni `Aqarah (including
`Aniyyah So`arah) two weeks later.

| Our cantor told me just to learn the Haftorah Hachodesh for Saturday,
| but has anybody in netland heard of this sandwiching?

Not of sandwiching, only of adding at the end.  If another haphtarah bumps
Shabbat Rosh Chodesh's HaShamayim Kis'i, then you read Isaiah 66:1 and
66:23 at the end of the haphtarah, before the closing brakhot.  If another
haphtarah (including HaShamayim Kis'i on the 30th of a month) bumps Machar
Chodesh, you add the first and last sentences of Machar Chodesh at the end
of the haphtarah (I Samuel 20:18 and 20:42, I think).

Ronni v'Simchi on 30 Kislev (and, per some minhagim, `Aniyyah So`arah on 30
Av) will supersede both HaShamayim Kis'i and Machar Chodesh, in which case
the maphtir finishes with four additional psuqim: Isaiah 66:1,23 from
HaShamayim Kis'i and then I Samuel 20:18,42 from Machar Chodesh.

Off the top of my head, these are possible:

Ronni v'Simchi bumps both HaShamayim Kis'i and Machar Chodesh on 30 Kislev;
Haphtarat Shqalim bumps Machar Chodesh on 29 Shvat or 29 Adar I;
Haphtarat Shqalim bumps HaShamayim Kis'i on 1 Adar or 1 Adar II*;
Haphtarat HaChodesh bumps Machar Chodesh on 29 Adar or 29 Adar II*;
Haphtarat HaChodesh bumps HaShamayim Kis'i on 1 Nisan;
HaShamayim Kis'i bumps Machar Chodesh on 30 Sivan;
Shim`u bumps HaShamayim Kis'i on 1 Av*;
`Aniyyah So`arah might bump Machar Chodesh on 29 Av*;
HaShamayim Kis'i bumps Machar Chodesh on 30 Av (unless your minhag is that
     `Aniyyah So`arah bumps both of them).

[*The situations marked with asterisks occur in years of Purim M'shullash
  and are thus relatively rare.]

I think the one thing everyone agrees on is that if 1 Tishri falls on
Shabbat, not only does Ma`aseh Channah supersede HaShamayim Kis'i but
one does not add Isaiah 66:1 and 66:23 after it.

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