Tuesday | Menachem Av 9 | 5703 | At Mincha: Sh'ma, Song of the Day (p. 76), Ein k'Elokeinu (p. 81), all the studies relevant to Shacharit, then the Order of Mincha (p. 96). The b'racha, she'assa li kol tzorki ("Who has provided me with every need," p. 8) is not said until tomorrow. | Torah lessons: | Chumash: Va'etchanan, Shlishi with Rashi. | Tehillim: 49-54. | Tanya: And now once more (p. 393) ...but Torah..." (p. 393). | |
Every year on Tisha B'Av my father studied Eicha Raba and the section of R. Yochanan in chapter Hanizakin.1
In the morning, after kinot - and he would say them all - he said Eicha. He was called to the Torah for maftir, sometimes both at Shacharit and Mincha.