Rabbi Yehudah Chaim Cohen ZT’L ZY’A in Yehudah Ya’aleh observes that the first letters of the first six words in the Hebrew text of Lamentations (Eicha) spell the words Aivah Ra’ah, bad hostility. The Rabbi points out the significance that even though Eicha was written against the First Temple’s destruction, the First Temple being destroyed because the nation worshipped idols, behaved immorally and engaged in bloodshed, the three sins one must be prepared to experience martyrdom. However, the… Continue