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Let's say I have a Chumash that has Haftarot at the back of the book. Am I yotze reading the Haftorah if I read from that?

Raphael Chilungu
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    what else would you use? – Moses Supposes Nov 18 '23 at 17:29
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    @MosesSupposes a haftara scroll. I don't think he is talking about following along but leining – Rabbi Kaii Nov 18 '23 at 18:18
  • @RabbiKaii Does anyone use such a thing? I've never seen it? – Moses Supposes Nov 18 '23 at 20:05
  • @MosesSupposes We have one at my synagogue but people rarely use it due to the lack of vowels – יהושע ק Nov 18 '23 at 20:40
  • @MosesSupposes we do at my shul. However, the OP might be thinking that you have to use a tanach – Lo ani Nov 18 '23 at 22:40
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    https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/83998/why-is-public-reading-of-the-haftarah-not-required-to-be-from-parchment – AKA Nov 18 '23 at 23:07
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    @יהושעק I always assumed that no one pays sofrim to write them because they aren't needed, although I did wonder why our tikkun has the same layout for haftoros as the parshiyos – Moses Supposes Nov 19 '23 at 10:02
  • @MosesSupposes they really use the back of the siddur in your shul to lein haftara? I've been there, I'm not sure I remember that! – Rabbi Kaii Nov 21 '23 at 16:32
  • @RabbiKaii I think they usually use a haftorah book, which is basically just the relevant excerpts of Nach compiled together, but that's functionally the same? – Moses Supposes Nov 21 '23 at 18:35
  • At all the shuls I'd been to as a child, they used scrolls. Where I go now they don't even read it out loud, but rather each person reads it to themselves quietly (apparently this is a Chassidish minhag?). And in between, I had visited a shul that was making a kiddush because they finally finished getting all the haftora scrolls written. – Esther Nov 24 '23 at 07:19

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