Kinos/Tishah B'Av Pocket Ashkenaz Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer, Rabbi Avie Gold (Hardcover, ArtScroll)

The complete prayer service for Tishah B'Av, including prayers from the standard siddur, the special Tishah B'Av liturgy, Torah readings, laws, and an overview.

Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer and Rabbi Avie Gold assembled this Ashkenaz edition so that one book covers the entire fast day. Maariv and Eichah, the Kinnos of the morning, the Torah reading, and the halachos all sit in a single binding, which means nobody is passing volumes back and forth on the floor of the shul or trying to find the right page in a second sefer.

The commentary and overview matter more on Tishah B'Av than on almost any other day of the year, because the Kinnos are dense poetry about events most people know only in outline. Read with the explanation alongside, the morning stops being an endurance test and becomes comprehensible.

This is the pocket size: 4 by 6 inches, 512 pages, hardcover. It is easy to hold while sitting low, easy to carry to a shul that is not your own, and small enough to keep in a bag through the Three Weeks. The hardcover binding survives being used once a year for many years.

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