By Akiva Weiss, YCT '10

Part I: The Power of a Rhetorical Question
(Alas, Eikhah does not really mean "Alas!")

A popular translation for the word Eikhah is "Alas". However, in multiple places in Tanakh we find the word eikhah, and in each of them eikhah is meant as a question, with the root of the word being "eikh", meaning "how?"

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