Kinot are religious poems written to memorialize the tragedies that befell the Jewish people on Tisha B’Av, the midsummer fast day that commemorates the destruction of both ancient …

2021年7月15日 · Join Scott Kahn in this bonus episode for commentaries on 25 of the 40 kinot (lamentations) that Jews recite on the morning of Tisha B’Av. (The time signatures for each …

Kinot (“elegies,” sing. “kinah”) are Hebrew poetic compositions recited on the fast of Tisha B’Av, lamenting the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem and the tragedies of the exile that …

אוֹי מֶה הָיָה לָנוּ: We have become orphans without a father. Alas! Our mothers mourn in the month of Av. Alas! what has occurred to us. מֵימֵינוּ בְּכֶסֶף שָׁתִינוּ אוֹי. כִּי נִסּוּךְ הַמַּיִם בָּזִינוּ. אוֹי מֶה הָיָה לָנוּ: We …

Already during the war, in the summer of 1944, a kinah was composed entitled, “If Only My Head Would be Water,” patterned after a kinah by that title recited on Tisha B’Av commemorating …

2022年8月4日 · Join Scott Kahn in this rereleased bonus episode for commentaries on 25 of the 40 kinot (lamentations) that Jews recite on the morning of Tisha B’Av. (The time signatures for …

2024年7月13日 · On Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av), Jews gather in synagogues to mourn the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash (the ancient Temple). Both at night and the following …

Most liturgies begin with a kinah of Hakallir, and end with a series known as Zionides, which extol the glory of Zion. In a favored elegy, written by Halevi, the poet expands on Jeremiah’s vision …

The Tisha B’Av kinah of “Sha’ali Srufa Ba’Esh” is An Elegy composed by the Maharam of Rothenburg for the Burning of the Talmud in Paris in 1242. Shiur presented by Rabbi Jack …

2014年8月4日 · Woe to us on this bitter day! We have what to cry about! The pervasive angst of isolation! Microwaves our very beings! We feel beaten from within. The continuous waves of …