How Could you Forget Your Own Promise

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Podcast: Three Weeks of Poetry: A Closer Look at the Kinnot

Episode date: Jul 3, 2026

Speakers: Rabbi Jay Kelman

Category: Tefillah (Prayer)

Episode description

Every stanza is the same heartbreaking question: God, how could you do this? How could you forget the covenant, the miracles, the people you chose? This kinah is a masterclass in grief, not acceptance, but raw, defiant questioning.

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