A young man was playing a somber tune on a piano as dozens of people waited for the chanting of lamentations to start. The nighttime silence that enveloped the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery was broken ...

Next week, The Book of Lamentations (Eicha – which in English means “How can it have happened?”) will be read on Tisha B’Av, the annual day of mourning. Having written a new commentary on this book, I ...

Christopher J. H. Wright explains what one of the Bible’s most neglected books teaches about our cries of grief. We live in a world with untold amounts of pain from war, famine, and oppression. But ...

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik said of his illustrious grandfather, Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, that “biz Reb Chaim, shtarot geven a chaspa b’alma”—before Rav Chaim contracts were mere paper. He also said that ...

The Book of Lamentations is read on the Ninth of Av, an annual fast day in July or August marking several calamities that occurred in Jewish history, including the destruction of the First Temple, ...

"She cries herself to sleep at night, tears soaking on her pillow." Is this a quote from Taylor Swift, or the biblical Book of Lamentations? And now for some silly Friday fun, here’s a game I was ...

Reposted from 2022. May it be G-d's Will that the Beit Hamikdash be rebuilt speedily in our times.. The Book of Lamentations (Megillat Eikha in Hebrew, one of the five megillahs incorporated into the ...

In Lamentations, Jerusalem is described as a widow after the destruction of the Temple: Lonely sits the city once great with people! She that was great among nations is become like a widow [כאלמנה] … ...