The Haftara for Shabbat HaGadol (Melachi 3:4-24) begins with the familiar words with which we end the Shemoneh Esrei three times a day:

Then the offering of Yehuda and Yerushalayim will be pleasing to God, as in the days old and in former years.

According to Abarbanel, “the days of old” refers to the First Beit HaMikdash (Temple) and “the former years” to the time when........

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