The Lonely Nation (PT15)

Lamentations(Eicha) With Rabbi Mendel Kaplan

Jul 24 2017 | 01:09:46

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Show Notes

Megillat Eicha 1:17 - Part 15 "The Lonely Nation" Studying Eicha verse 1:17. Zion; crying in pain and weeping incessantly, wrings her hands and desperately reaches out seeking sympathy, comfort and consolation, but no one responds! Her enemies follow her into exile; encircled and taunted she is outcast and disgraced. This class poignantly illustrates how this tragic poetry is textbook description of our Exilic Experience.

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