Reading Lamentations in 2024 with Bex Rosenblatt​​​​​​​ - Part 1

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One definition of the word 'Lament' that resonates with me after taking in your zoom video is this one: Lament validates the expression of pain while providing a framework-a God-centered structure-so we avoid falling into the trap of self-centeredness. 2nd definition seems to light the way after you illuminated that first word following the title Name: Laments lead us through our sorrows so that we can trust God and praise him. This is how Psalm 13 concludes. 3rd a final definition (English of course...wish I knew Hebrew). Close vicinity words add 'Remorse' to the perspective of Jerusalem into the possibility that she is wondering if she contributed directly to her own demise? Thus, Israel, the state? (supposed protector of the Israelites) has abandoned her ..again. Or is it God who abandons? Or does it only appear to her that God has? Trauma, grief, shock....they do test our faith through the process. We do now know that feeling at least by sharing together as you point out clearly. We are now it seems gathered within a pool of lamentation with a tributary running straight through Jerusalem to Gaza and beyond. In the process we sure are hearing now from older orthodox and reformed Rabbis and younger "secular" Jews about who Zionists are and their history that is directly, historically illumined in the Book of Lamentations....for this time around Best regards, Glad I found you

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Christ is throughout the OT.

[@breadman5048]

i really wanted to hear the commentary and understand what lamentations says.. but honestly the inhumanity with which you justify displacing palestenians for decades and engaging in a genocide of palestinians (2% have been murdered) (in both gaza and the other territories) shows me the darkest sides of human nature. The woman in blue talking about losing the PR battle is particularly clueless. It's the height of hypocrisy that the suffering Jews experienced pre ww2 are being perpetrated on others.