Haftaros of Vayetze and Vayishlach – A Mistake Rectified
There had been one practice throughout the Jewish world concerning the Haftara of Vayishlach until the print revolution. The book of Ovadia is the Haftara listed in every Haftara list, including the one in the Rambam’s Seder HaTefillos in the Mishneh Torah, MS Ginsburg Moscow of the Machzor Vitry, Etz Chaim (written in London on the eve of the Edict of Expulsion), Abudarham, and the list of Rabbi Shmuel Hanagid, cited in the Sefer HaEshkol. It is also the Haftara…