Topic Tags: lamentations

“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.”

“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)

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