Introduction to Eicha - Badad and Bidud

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

my dearest friends my brothers and sisters in boca raton and from wherever you're watching in this most unusual what's the most painful it's most complicated tish above let's be honest most years most years we struggle to connect to tish above the calamities the tragedies of the past are from so long ago they are so are from so long ago they are so unfamiliar to us do we even begin to appreciate it to relate to what was and what was lost how can we mourn and how can we grieve for things we never knew what does it mean to have had a base i make dash what does it mean to be exiled from you shall i am what does it mean to be sent away and to sit alone this is foreign to us it's unfamiliar to us we hear the words most ears of the megillah that will read momentarily how could she sit alone and while every year we can translate the words we don't connect to what they mean yes to sit alone most years we listen to icha in a show that's packed with people from wall to wall most years we're sitting among friends and though of course we're restricted from greeting one another nevertheless surrounded by people we know we feel companionship and community and we feel companionship and community and connection and while we hear the words of icha most years we struggle to manufacture the feeling to generate the emotions that they're meant to create but my dear friends not tonight tonight this year those words they pierce our souls and they break our hearts

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