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e-TiM: The Harmony of Dissonance: A Study of Megilat Eikhah

Dates

June 26, 2023 to July 24, 2023

Time

Mondays 10:00 AM Eastern

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The Harmony of Dissonance: A Study of Megilat Eikhah

Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom

Mondays, June 26 to July 24 - 10:00am Eastern, 5:00pm Israel

(Please note that class on MONDAY, JULY 17 will be at 9:00am Eastern.)

The mournful tones of Megilat Eikhah echo through our collective memory as the whispers of loss, the wistful nostalgia for a noble glory incredibly tarnished and sullied by calamity after calamity, hurban followed by yet another hurban. We explore the elegiac poetry of this hallowed collection of dirges with an aim to understanding the author's goal and trying to resolve whether it was achieved.

Topics:

Jewish Holidays, Tisha B'av, Tanach, Ketuvim, Eicha

Meet the speaker

Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom

Rav Yitzchak Etshalom was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavne, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary and Yeshivat Har Etzion before receiving Semicha from the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim. He teaches Tanakh and Gemara at the YULA High Schools, besides being a sought-after Scholar in Residence throughout North America and Israel. His critically acclaimed series “Between the Lines of the Bible” is a methodological guide to the study of Tanakh and his books onAmos (2024)…

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