The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Hanukkah ( Zech. 2:14–4:7 ) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: The haftarah for Chanukah reminds us that physical strength and power are very limited tools when compared to the Divine...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Vayeshev (Amos 2:6-3:8) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: Amos laments the people’s ordering the prophets not to prophesy. If Amos were speaking in our streets today, would we hear him...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Vayishlah (Obad. 1:1-21) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: The prophet places God’s dominion in opposition to human arrogance, and specifically the arrogance of perceived invincibility, i

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Vayetzei (Hos. 11:7–12:12) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: Among the charges the prophet levies against the northern tribes is the self-delusion that their unethical business...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Mahar Hodesh (1 Sam. 20:18-42) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: Despite Biblical commands to honor and revere parents, and despite the respect and loyalty due to a king, Jonathan here...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Hayyei Sarah (1 Kings 1:1-131) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: One of the traditional roles of the Hebrew prophets was to speak truth to power, as the prophet Nathan speaks to King...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Vayera (2 Kings 4:1-23) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: This story can be read as a re-working of the binding of Isaac, with the child’s mother (the Shunammite woman), rather than...

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Lekh Lekha (Isaiah 40:27-41:16) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: In this haftarah, Isaiah responds to a crisis of faith among the people, the feeling that their concerns are ignored by...

What do the prophets of the Bible have to say to us today? Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, Director of the Block / Kolker Center for Spiritual Arts at JTS introduces The Voice of the Prophet.

The Haftarah portion for Shabbat Rosh Hodesh (Isaiah 66:1-24) narrated in English by Ronald Guttman. Questions for Discussion: God is seen here rejecting the worship of the outwardly pious, who pride themselves in building religious institutions, but...