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Haftarah of Shabbos Shirah, Deborah, and Barak sing G-dâs praises for delivering the Canaanite general Sisera into their hands. Towards the end of the shirah, they say, in reference to Siseraâs mother anxiously anticipating her sonâs triumphant return: âShe gazed through the window ( chalon) and she sobbed; Siseraâs mother [peeked] through the window ( eshnav)â (Judges 5:28). This verse contains two words for window: â chalonâ and â Advertisement Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) traces the etymology of â chalonâ (which appears 31 times in the Bible) to the two-letter root chet-lammed, which means circular movement and the empty space within a circle. Other words that derive from this root, says Rabbi Pappenheim, include: