Lamentations
Chanting the Book of Eicha
The biblical Book of Lamentations is chanted in a unique style, with each verse beginning in a major mode and ending in its relative minor mode.
The Prohibition Against Studying Torah on Tisha B’Av
Why would learning sacred Jewish texts be forbidden on this day of fasting and mourning?
Tisha B’Av 2017
Tisha B'Av (the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av) begins at sunset on Monday, July 31, and continues until the evening of August 1.
Kinot for Tisha B’Av
The liturgy for the 9th of Av includes Lamentations and special additional elegies.