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Lamentations (Eikhah)איכה
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Four alphabetic acrostics for a burnt city — grief so total it must be alphabetized to be spoken at all. "How (Eikhah) does she sit alone": the widowed city IS the Shekhinah in the Zohar's reading, and midnight lament for her (Tikkun Chatzot) became a nightly kabbalistic practice in Safed.
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