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It is a Jewish custom not to print the book of
Eicha without including prayers and prophecies of consolation. as well.
For Jewish tradition teaches us the proper way to view tragedy is not
only in relation to past conduct but as a lesson in future hope: the
deeper the misfortune, the greater the salvation to come. We learn this
from the drama of Creation, in which darkness preceded light. Later,
the darkness of Egyptian slavery preceded the light of the exodus and
the giving of the Torah. Many tragedies befell the Jewish people on the
day of the Ninth of Av, the Day of Lamentations, but also the day on
which the Mashiach was born. Both Holy Temples were destroyed, with all
the evil that accompanied those calamities. The Jews were expelled from
Spain on that day. But the appropriate way to study the Book of Eicha
as a link between despair and hope, between darkness and light, and
also realize our negative actions that allowed such events to take
place. This edition of Me
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