Isaiah may have been a great prophet, but in this week’s Haftarah, he seems ambivalent about his own profession. At first, he proclaims: Maybe he was less successful than he originally thought. And ...
In this second of the seven special haftarot of consolation (shiva d’nahamta) which follow after Tisha b’Av, we find one of the famous passages in the book of Isaiah about the “suffering servant of ...