Episode details
Podcast: Three Weeks of Poetry: A Closer Look at the Kinnot
Episode date: Jul 6, 2026
Speakers: Rabbi Jay Kelman
Category: Tefillah (Prayer)
Episode description
What destroys a society from within? In this kinah, Rav Elazar HaKalir traces the Temple's destruction not only to Rome, but to corrupt leadership, a public eager to embrace comforting falsehoods over painful truths, and the tragedy of internal division. Yet even amid devastation, the kinah closes with an enduring message of hope: the Jewish people will one day return to their land.
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