Posted on 07/20/2010 9:59:55 AM PDT by Trafalgar123
“Bitterly, she weeps in the night, Her cheek wet with tears. There is none to comfort her of all her friends. All her allies have betrayed her; They have become her foes.” Lamentations 1.2
Today is Tisha B’Av, the Jewish day of mourning that commemorates the many calamities that have befallen the Jewish people. The destruction of the first and second temples occurred on the ninth of Av, as well as the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the adoption of the Final Solution by the Nazis.
And here in America, the image of Jerusalem weeping with none to comfort her has a terrible resonance in 2010. “All her allies have betrayed her; They have become her foes.” A pitch-perfect description of Obama’s...
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Tzom kal
Thank you posting this. Would the fasting have started at sunset yesterday?
Yes.
Jerusalem remembers,
when she became a poor homeless person,
all her treasures that she owned in days of old.
When her people fell into an enemy’s grip,
none of her allies came to her rescue.
Her enemies gloated over her;
they sneered at her downfall.
Lamentations 1:7
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