SHABBAT HACHODESHSHABBAT HACHODESH
On the Shabbat before Rosh Hodesh Nissan or when it falls on Shabbat, we read Parashat Hachodesh for Maftir. "This month is for you the first of months..." (Shemot 12).
This reading is intended to remind us that Pesach is approaching.
For the Haftara we read from Yechezkel, Chapter 45, which tells about the sacrifices which were brought from Rosh Chodesh Nissan and which will be again brought in the future, when the third Beit Mikdash is built. The Haftara concludes with words of consolation:
"Like the flock of Jerusalem at her appointed times, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men" (36:38).
