Mishna:

Megillah 

Parsha:

Hachodesh,  Parah,  Shekalim 

Description

The annual cycle of Keriat haTorah is punctuated in the weeks before Pesach with the addition of the "Arba Parashiot" - four special readings read as the Maftir on those weeks. We analyze the historic-Halakhic reality of this practice, along with the Hashkafic implications of these readings, coming as they do in the weeks leading up to Pesach.