Lord knows we have what to lament. Our tradition gives us a time and a structure. The date is the Day of Destruction, the 9th o fAv (Tish’ah B’Av). The structure is the Book of Lamentations (In Hebrew called “Eichah,”which literally means “How?”), interspersed with modern and older poems and songs. Let’s take time to lament and reflect. That’s a part of the work of building something new. In fact, there’s a tradition that the Messiah is born on Tish’ah B’Av. Maybe our lamentation will help birth a new era of love and peace.

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