Someone — let’s call her Mrs. Pearl — calls me right after Tisha B’Av.
“I had the most amazing insight on Tisha B’Av” she says.
I know Mrs. Pearl and her revelations are usually good ones so I get my pen and paper ready. She begins.
“I was reading Eichah when you could already lie on the couch” she sets the scene “getting those hunger and thirst pangs and I started to read about how Hashem threw down Yisrael’s beauty from Heaven to Earth. Actually it was the first time I remember hearing that concept and it struck me what does that mean ‘He threw down our beauty from Heaven to Earth’?
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