The Book of Lamentations, attributed to the prophet Jeremiah in the Vulgate and closely connected with his prophetic writing, is a little-known and somewhat obscure Old Testament text. It has as its ...

People gather to hear a reading of the Book of Lamentations at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall on August 6, 2022. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel) Dozens of writers and poets were set to ...

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A 2,000-year-old scroll of the Book of Lamentations, a biblical tale of sorrow and mourning for Jerusalem traditionally read on Tisha B’Av, has been put in display in the Bible Lands Museum in ...

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 ...

When the Sinaitic Covenant was renewed to the hosts of Israel, poised in the plains of Moab for the conquest of Canaan, the ancient promises of blessing were repeated; but so too were the curses that ...

like Jewish history’s literary hobgoblin, Jeremiah’s Book of Lamentations. In “We’re Taught to Hate Hypocrisy We Shouldn’t,” NYT, 8/4/24, by Lydia Polgreen writes: A manichean devotion to principle ...

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As a believer, I consider the Holy Bible as the living word of God which speaks to us today as it spoke to men and women of ages past and as it will speak to our descendants in the future. The apostle ...

THE LAST OF THE JUST (374 pp.)—André Schwarz-Bart—Atheneum ($4.95). This first novel, a quasi-epic panorama of Jewish suffering from medieval pogroms to Nazi crematories, is a publishing phenomenon in ...