The haftarah for the Torah portion of the Book of Exodus drawn from Isaiah 27:6-28:13 and 29:22-23 (according to the Ashkenazi custom) mirrors in a profound way the portion itself.
If the opening chapters of Exodus tell us how the Jews became slaves, the haftarah tells us something far more unsettling: how they disappear. Isaiah’s prophecy does not focus on chains or taskmasters but on spiritual exiles, on Jews scattered so deeply among the nations that they are seemingly lost to our people. And yet, he insists, they too shall one day come back.
At the heart of Isaiah’s vision stands a powerful image: “On that day, a great shofar shall be sounded, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were cast off in the land of Egypt s
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