Loss and Listening
We had a great program tonight to begin a meaningful Tisha B’av experience at Beit Yehudit (ICCY) in Jerusalem’s German Colony entitled: Personal Lamentations – Tisha B’Av Readings – run by the Ginot Hair Community Center and Deena Levenstein of Habitza.com
On our national day of mourning our losses – Tisha Be’Av … let us sharpen our listening skills to our Divine Presence … and our fellow mortal.
Are we listening to each other?
– Are You there?
I need comfort, I need to be heard.
– Where are You?
I pour out my heart with my losses. I talk to You.
– Are You there?
So much to tell, a burden to be relieved.
– Where are You?
My losses, my pain, too much to share.
– Are You there?
Once I heard how you just want me to listen to You.
– Where was I?
You wanted me to be there for you.
– Was I there?
Any relationship is a partnership.
– Where are we?
Between person and G-d, or person and person.
– We need to share.
— And be there!
~ FE King