@theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2026-07-22 15:06 UTC
Tonight begins Tisha B'Av, the Jews' mourning the destruction of the First & Second Temples & more.
So I'm looking at a now near-lost practice of Jews in Morocco, Kurdistan, Calcutta, the Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Ethiopia, Eastern Europe & beyond:
Specialized women lamenters / wailers:
"She can make stones cry."
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@theradr.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-07-23 14:46
It's Tisha B'Av day, now, some other pieces, a thread-- On the Book of Lamentations' use of the metaphor of the sexually assaulted body of Jerusalem: so much to mourn