Maftir And Haftara For Seventh Day Of Pesah

maftir vehaftarah lashvi-i shel Pesach

מפטיר והפטרה לשביעי של פסח

Israeli: ' marks a reduced vowel that Israeli speech drops (b'rachah); when the vowel is pronounced it is written e (lefanecha). - separates syllables that would otherwise run together.

How to read the transliterations

מפטיר לשביעי של פסח

MAFTIR FOR THE SEVENTH DAY OF PESAḤ

The first Torah scroll is lifted up (page 576) and Maftir is read from the second Torah scroll:

Num. 28:19-25

Hebrew

וְהִקְרַבְתֶּם אִשֶּׁה עֹלָה לַיהוָה פָּרִים בְּנֵי־בָקָר שְׁנַיִם וְאַיִל אֶחָד וְשִׁבְעָה כְבָשִׂים
בְּנֵי שָׁנָה תְּמִימִם יִהְיוּ לָכֶם׃ וּמִנְחָתָם סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשֶּׁמֶן שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים
לַפָּר וּשְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים לָאַיִל תַּעֲשׂוּ׃ עִשָּׂרוֹן עִשָּׂרוֹן תַּעֲשֶׂה לַכֶּבֶשׂ הָאֶחָד לְשִׁבְעַת
הַכְּבָשִׂים׃ וּשְׂעִיר חַטָּאת אֶחָד לְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם׃ מִלְּבַד עֹלַת הַבֹּקֶר אֲשֶׁר לְעֹלַת
הַתָּמִיד תַּעֲשׂוּ אֶת־אֵלֶּה׃ כָּאֵלֶּה תַּעֲשׂוּ לַיּוֹם שִׁבְעַת יָמִים לֶחֶם אִשֵּׁה רֵיחַ־
נִיחֹחַ לַיהוָה עַל־עוֹלַת הַתָּמִיד יֵעָשֶׂה וְנִסְכּוֹ׃ וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ
יִהְיֶה לָכֶם כָּל־מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ׃

Israeli

vehikravtem isheh olah ladonai parim b'nei-vakar sh'nayim ve-ayil echad veshivah ch'vasim
b'nei shanah t'mimim yihyu lachem. uminchatam solet b'lulah vashemen sh'loshah esronim
lapar ushnei esronim la-ayil ta-asu. isaron isaron ta-aseh lakeves ha-echad leshivat
hakvasim. use-ir chatat echad lechaper aleichem. milevad olat haboker asher le-olat
hatamid ta-asu et-eleh. ka-eleh ta-asu layom shivat yamim lechem isheh reiach-
nichoach ladonai al-olat hatamid ye-aseh venisko. uvayom hashvi-i mikra-kodesh
yihyeh lachem kol-melechet avodah lo ta-asu.

הפטרה לשביעי של פסח

HAFTARA FOR THE SEVENTH DAY OF PESAḤ

II Sam. 22:1-51

Hebrew

וַיְדַבֵּר דָּוִד לַיהוָה אֶת־דִּבְרֵי הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת בְּיוֹם
הִצִּיל יְהוָה אֹתוֹ מִכַּף כָּל־אֹיְבָיו וּמִכַּף שָׁאוּל׃
וַיֹּאמַר יְהוָה סַלְעִי וּמְצֻדָתִי וּמְפַלְטִי־לִי׃ אֱלֹהֵי
צוּרִי אֶחֱסֶה־בּוֹ מָגִנִּי וְקֶרֶן יִשְׁעִי מִשְׂגַּבִּי
וּמְנוּסִי מֹשִׁעִי מֵחָמָס תֹּשִׁעֵנִי׃ מְהֻלָּל
אֶקְרָא יְהוָה וּמֵאֹיְבַי אִוָּשֵׁעַ׃ כִּי אֲפָפֻנִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי־
מָוֶת נַחֲלֵי בְלִיַּעַל יְבַעֲתֻנִי׃ חֶבְלֵי
שְׁאוֹל סְבָבֻנִי קִדְּמֻנִי מֹקְשֵׁי־
מָוֶת׃ בַּצַּר־לִי אֶקְרָא יְהוָה וְאֶל־
אֱלֹהַי אֶקְרָא וַיִּשְׁמַע מֵהֵיכָלוֹ
קוֹלִי וְשַׁוְעָתִי בְּאָזְנָיו׃ וַתִּגְעַשׁ וַיִּתְגָּעַשׁ

Israeli

vaydaber David ladonai et-divrei hashirah hazot b'yom
hitzil Adonai oto mikaf kol-oyvav umikaf Shaul.
vayomar Adonai sali umetzudati umefalti-li. Elohei
tzuri echeseh-bo magini vekeren yishi misgabi
umenusi moshi-i mechamas toshi-eni. mehulal
ekra Adonai ume-oyvai ivashea. ki afafuni mishberei-
mavet nachalei v'liya-al yeva-atuni. chevlei
she-ol s'vavuni kidmuni mokshei-
mavet. batzar-li ekra Adonai ve-el-
Elohai ekra vayishma meheichalo
koli veshavati be-oznav. vatigash vayitga-ash

Commentary

The superscription describes this as a song David sang "on the day the LORD saved him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul," though it reads as if it was composed late in David's life. If so, then it would show that his deliverance from Saul stayed vivid in his memory until the end (Rashi, Radak). Abrabanel, however, believed that David wrote it in his youth, sang it at various points in his life on occasions of deliverance from danger, and eventually edited it for public use in the form we have as Psalm 18.

David's great song of deliverance, taken here from II Samuel 22, also appears in the book of Psalms (with minor differences) as Psalm 18. Its kinship with the Torah reading, the Song at the Sea, is obvious. Both are songs of thanksgiving after great danger. David uses imagery that echoes the Song at the Sea. He speaks of being almost overwhelmed by "breakers" and "torrents." He says, "Channel-beds of the sea appeared … from the force of breath from His nostrils." He feels as if God had "reached from the heights, He took me, He drew me out from a mass of waters." The intertextuality – the linguistic and metaphorical parallels between the two songs – is unmistakable.