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From: jgf@hou5g.UUCP (Joseph Friedman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: eichah and tish'ah b'av
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 11:36:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 11:36:59 1984
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As some of you may know, on tish'ah b'av (9th day of Av)
we read the scroll of eicha (Lamentations, I think).  In it
a prophet (Jermemiah?) relates all the terrible punishments
that will be meted out to the Jews if they don't follow the
right path, etc.
As I read/studied/recited it today, I realized that not only
are the quite graphic descriptions worse than any horror stories
anyone can conjur up, but the exact scenario, complete in all
its gory details, has actually taken place.
Only forty years ago.


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