Something laden with potential, now barren. Jeremiah 31 is a common reading in the Christmas season. The familiarity of the passage might mean we miss the force of its words, and that this message ...

Her poems are noted for gifted allusions to verses and midrash. Jeremiah 31: (Chabad translation) 14-16: So says the Lord: A voice is heard on high, lamentation, bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for ...