A ḳinnah composed in response to the agonizing and cruel United States immigration policy implemented under the presidency of Donald Trump. . . .
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tagged: אוי oy 
Contributor(s): Aryeh Cohen
Shared on א׳ בשבט ה׳תש״פ (2020-01-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories:  Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Tisha b'Av
Tags:  קינות Ḳinnot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., welcome the immigrant, United States Immigration Policy, Immigration policy of Donald Trump, אוי oy
Contributor(s): Rachel Salston (translation) and Barukh ben Shmuel of Mainz
Shared on ט׳ באב ה׳תשע״ה (2015-07-25) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tisha b'Av
Tags: קינות Ḳinnot, Mourning this Broken World, 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., אוי oy 
“Oy Meh Haya Lanu” is a kinah traditionally recited on the night of Tisha b’Av directly after the reading of Eikha. According to the Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot, it is number 1 of 50. The title is the refrain of the poem, a reflective lament. This kinah is based on the fifth and final chapter of Eikha, taking the opening phrase of each line of the megillah as the first line of each couplet and poetically expanding the description for the second. This translation is an attempt to convey the vulgarity and horror of the paytan’s depiction of the destroyed Jerusalem in vernacular English. The kinah ends just as the megillah ends, with the four verses of pleas for redemption. . . . 
Contributor(s): Rachel Salston (translation) and Elazar ben Killir
Shared on י׳ באב ה׳תשע״ה (2015-07-26) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Tisha b'Av
Tags: קינות Ḳinnot, Mourning this Broken World, 7th century C.E., 45th century A.M., אוי oy 
“Alelai Li” is a kinah recited on the morning of Tisha bAv. It was written by HaKalir around the 7th century. According to the Koren Mesorat HaRav Kinot, it is number 17 of 50. The title is the refrain of the poem and is an onomatopoeic whimper (try saying it aloud, focusing on the alliteration). It is difficult to translate the opening word “im” which means “if” or “should”. This is an allusion to Job 10:15, “If I have done evil, then woe unto me.” I have decided to translate the kinah not in the conditional tense (which would render “If these horrible things happened, then woe is me!”) but as a lament upon memory; however, the former would be a more accurate (if not more awkward in English) translation. Adding to the awkwardness of the poem’s language is the feminine conditional verb that each line has after the word “im”. I have maintained this strange verb tense and placement in my translation by using the English progressive tense. The kinah ends with a collection in lines in a different meter suggesting that the Holy One (and the paytan himself) is angered that the Jewish people announce their sufferings but not their transgressions. . . . |
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