Eicha pictures

Tisha b’Av seems a long time ago, now that Yom Kippur is on us, but I am finally posting those pictures of Megillat Eicha I promised you all those weeks ago.

First – Eicha scroll, bodaciously swathed in black.

Next – reading from the scroll, mostly backlit by candlelight. The candles were very atmospheric, but very HOT.

Now, a picture with the light on, so that you can see the most interesting part of the layout – the third chapter. In this tikkun, the verses are arranged in a sort of descending staircase form, which I find rather powerful. We have psalms which start “Shir haMaalot” – “A Song of Ascent” – associated (so tour guides always tell you) with the ascents of the Temple steps. This is the scroll of the destruction, and here the stairs go down.

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.