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“Wavering candlelight / illuminates our lament…”
Rabbi Emily Cohen and Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann share a powerful original Lamentations for Tisha b’Av 2025
Two new Tisha b’Av rituals created for 2025 focus on mourning and liberation.
Rabbi Gilah Langner’s version of Eikah focuses on Israel and also Gaza.
“Let Av hold what hurts. / Let it draw us near.”
“We will weep through as many nights as we must…”
“I will teach you the melody of my Echa, together we will sit on the ground and mourn for the peace of Jerusalem.”
“For every grain of salt, a thousand tears…”
A poem for Tisha b’Av.

“You weep with us in the darkest night / But raise us in joy in morning’s light.”

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