Originally published in thelehrhaus.com on August 4th, 2022. The Biblical book of Lamentations, Megillat Eikha, is fraught with both theological and textual inconsistencies, making it a difficult text ...

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] … ...

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 ...