Topic Tags: eikha

“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)

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

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.

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

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