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Each year our prayer communities read five short books of Jewish scripture: Kohelet or Ecclesiastes; Ester or the Book of Esther; Shir HaShirim or the Song of Songs; Rut or the Book of Ruth; and Eicha or Lamentations. The poetic Hebrew can be difficult to follow, especially when an expert chants the book. So we have set the Hebrew in convenient phrases with a line-by-line English translation and full transliteration. Extensive footnotes explain difficulties in the text or translation. Transliterated, egali