Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Holidays:

Tisha Bav 

Collections: R' Torczyner Kinnot Insights

Description

Brief introduction to the kinah, looking at what Rabbi Elazar haKallir did in emphasizing that the series of Ohalot created by Hashem were meant to be our ohalot, our spaces to inhabit with Hashem, and accusing Hashem of abandoning those spaces. The goal of the Jew is to share a space with Hashem, and we mourn the loss of this hope on Tisha b'Av. here to the last eight pesukim of Eichah, in his role as a mekonein: Embellishment, and Drawing out the voice of the mourner