The Jewish memorial of Tisha B’Av is a time of mourning, commemorating the many tragedies throughout Jewish history. Yet through shadows of sorrow come rays of hope.
Comfort in Sorrow is a series of seven free email devotions exploring the depths of tragedy, and what we can do to transform darkness into light.
Tisha B’Av—the ninth day of the month of Av—marks the darkest, most sorrowful day of the Jewish calendar. It was on this day that the First Temple was destroyed in 586 BC and the Jewish people were exiled to Babylon. And the Romans destroyed the Second Temple on this same day in AD 70.
Throughout the course of Jewish history, this day has been marked by other tragedies: the final revolt against the Romans was crushed in AD 135; the expulsion of the Jews from Spain was decreed in 1492; and in 1942, on this day, the Nazis began deporting Jews from Poland’s Warsaw Ghetto to the death camps.
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, Lord, how long?
Turn, Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing lovePsalm 32:7
You are my hiding place.
You will keep me safe from trouble.
You will surround me with songs sung by those who praise you
because you save your people.
Meditate on how hope emerges from sorrow when you sign up to receive the brief 7-day free email devotional by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Comfort in Sorrow. Also included in each day’s devotional is a different Hebrew word-of-the-day; a convenient way to learn new Hebrew concepts.
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