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Hebrew Kinot for Tisha B'Av Alt

Image of an open book containing the Kinot, written in Hebrew script

The Kinot are a liturgical set of poems or dirges expressing mourning, pain, and suffering. This text is to be read on the occasion of Tisha B’Av, a day of fasting in the Jewish calendar to commemorate the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem.

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