Maftir And Haftara For Seventh Day Of Pesah

Maftir VeHaftarah Lishvi'i Shel Pesach

מפטיר והפטרה לשביעי של פסח

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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׃

Sephardi

Vehikravtem isheh olah laadonai parim benei-bakar shenayim ve'ayil echad veshiv'ah chevasim
Benei shanah temimim yihyu lachem: uminchatam solet belulah vashemen sheloshah esronim
Lapar ushnei esronim la'ayil ta'asu: isaron isaron ta'aseh lakeves ha'echad leshiv'at
Hakevasim: use'ir chatat echad lechaper aleichem: milvad olat haboker asher le'olat
Hatamid ta'asu et-eleh: ka'eleh ta'asu layom shiv'at yamim lechem isheh reiach-
Nichoach laadonai al-olat hatamid yei'aseh venisko: uvayom hashevi'i mikra-kodesh
Yihyeh lachem kol-melechet avodah lo ta'asu:

English

And you shall bring an offering consumed by fire, a burnt-offering to the LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, and seven yearling male lambs; they shall be to you unblemished. And you shall perform their meal-offerings, fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for each bull, two-tenths of an ephah for the ram; and one-tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs; and one goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. All this aside from the morning burnt-offering, the daily offering; You shall offer all of these as food, on each of the seven days, a burnt-offering by fire of pleasing aroma to the LORD, along with the regular daily offering and its libation. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly: you shall do no laborious work.

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

Sephardi

Vayedaber David laadonai et-divrei hashirah hazot beyom
Hitzil Adonai oto mikaf kol-oyvav umikaf Shaul:
Vayomar Adonai sal'i umetzudati umefalti-li: Elohei
Tzuri echeseh-bo magini vekeren yish'i misgabi
Umenusi mosh'i meichamas tosh'eini: mehulal
Ekra Adonai ume'oyvai ivasha: ki afafuni mishberei-
Mavet nachalei veliya'al yeva'atuni: chevlei
She'ol sevavuni kidmuni mokshei-
Mavet: batzar-li ekra Adonai ve'el-
Elohai ekra vayishma meheichalo
Koli veshav'ati be'oznav: vatig'ash vayitga'ash

English

And David spoke the words of this song to the LORD – on the day the LORD saved him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said: LORD, my Rock, my Fortress – and my Deliverer; my God, my Rock – I shelter in Him; my Shield and the Strength for my salvation; my Keep and my Refuge, my Savior; You save me from violence. Praised One! I call to the LORD, and from my enemies I am saved – for breaking-waves of death were all around me, torrents of evil assailed me; the ropes of the grave encircled me, traps of death were in front of me. In my anguish I called to the LORD – to my God, I called out – and He heard from His sanctuary, my voice and my pleas were in His ears.

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.