During the three weeks between 17th Tammuz and Tisha b’Av this year I decided to consider the synoptic accounts of Yeshua’s prophecy surrounding the destruction of the second Temple and the end of the age. Taking Matthew 24:6-25:13, Mark 13:1-37, and Luke 21:5-36 divided into 21 short readings. Interestingly, of the eleven occurrences of the [...]
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July 28, 2009
A Woman’s Prayer for Tisha b’Av
One of the books I have read over the past month is Seyder Tkhines (The Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women) by Devra Kay. The Seyder Tkhines is the first known standard book of prescribed vernacular prayers for women originally printed in Yiddish in the year 1648, and incorporated into numerous Ashkenazic synagogue [...]
