Yom HaAtzmaut and the Eighth Day of Pesach
Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by cyberdov
The ‘haftara’ for YH is the same as for P8 – the vision of salvation spoken by Isaiah, which begins with a description of the imminent salvation from Assyria, and seems to morph into a description of Messianic times.
The background is that Sennacharib advanced on Jerusalem with 180,000 troops. Hezekiah inspired a religious repentance [...]
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