Jewish Holidays
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The practices associated with this holiday are closer to the experience of being a refugee than to being a mourner.
Tisha B'Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, is testament to the failure of prayer to avert national catastrophe.
At the core of Lamentations is an expression of faith in the human capacity to survive in a broken world.