Topic Tags: eikha

Latest Rituals

Lamentations

“I cried out for my friends (1:19), / ‘See the distress I am in!’ (1:20). / There was no one to comfort me” (1:21). / “My heart is sick” (1:22)

eikha, lamentations, tisha b'av

many lit tea lights

Kinah on Tisha b’Av 5779: A Call to Close the Camps and Welcome the Stranger

We cry today until we too are parched and empty / We cry until despair and cynicism and immobilizing fear are washed away

eikha, immigration, kinah, refugees, social justice, tisha b'av

a barbed wire fence stands in front of a torn American flag waving against a gray sky

“Bitterly She Weeps In the Night”: Voices of Exiles and Refugees, Past and Present

Text sheet that takes a few lines of each chapter of Eikha and puts a parallel quote from an immigrant parent separated from their children.

eikha, immigration, lamentations, refugees, text study, trauma

the corner of a barbed-wire fence

Eikha for the Earth

A new Tisha B’Av ceremony with lamentations for the Earth

climate crisis, eco-friendly, eikha, hashiveinu, justice, kinah, lamentations, shir hashirim, tisha b'av

a field with a tree standing in the distance and pink clouds dotting a darkening sky

The Book of Lamentations: An Optimistic Drama

A ritual that presents the Book of Lamentations as a play with a cast of characters using the original text of Lamentations as the script

eikha, hashiveinu, lamentations, script, tisha b'av

a house is on fire and burning against a dark background