Lamentations or elegies, said or sung to mourn the fall of the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes spelled kinnot or kinoth. Can also be used in observation of Yom HaShoah. Kinot were once dirges sung by professional mourners.
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Rabbi Jonathan ben David HaKohen. 13th century French philosopher at Lunel and contemporary of Maimonides. Read more in the Jewish Encyclopedia.