[Avodah] Do Women Need To Hear Eicha?

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:24:25AM +0100, Rt Chana Sassoon (nee Luntz) wrote:
: Firstly, as far as I was aware, recitation of Eicha is a minhag, not a
: rabbinical enactment (unlike Megilla).  We don't make a bracha on its
: recitation, for example....

Although this doesn't explain why there is no berakhah in Ashkenazi
minyanim (when there is no kelaf). Ashkenazim do make berakhos on
minhagim, or perhaps as the Brisker Rav suggests, on those minhagim
that imitate dinim that get berakhos. IOW, I understand why there was no
berakhah in the Sassons' minyan, but not why there wasn't in mine. The
rabbi was reading Eikhah from pretty much where he stood last Chanukah
and lit the menorah with a berakhah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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