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.