timely (on the Hebrew calendar) and chilling

[cellio]

For Jews who are tuned in to the season we are now in, culminating Tuesday, listen to the audio file first.

Everybody else may still be interested in the explanation.

Thanks to Seth in the Mi Yodeya chat room for sharing these with me.

For those who are observing Tisha b'Av in a couple days, may you have an easy fast.

Comments

[goljerp]

I should have known better than to follow that link in the morning before I had to go to work.

I suppose it didn't help that I sort of know the guy who did this (we go to the same shul and I recognize his name/face/voice).

[goljerp]

Oops, meant to add, "... but thank you for posting that."

[cellio]

Oops. I'm sorry about that; I guess I didn't give enough warning. (For me, I immediately recognized the trope, then said "hey wait that's English...what is that?", and it took a couple moments to register.)

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm only now listening to this (I'm not on LJ much these days). Thus far, I have never observed Tisha b'Av. Perhaps in part because I find it hard to relate to the yearning to return to the days of the temple. Perhaps because I don't like to dwell on tragedy. Perhaps because I don't do fasting unless I really really connect, as on Yom Kippur. But I did recognize the trope, and as I realized what was being said, I got chills, and I grieved, and I got the faintest glimmer of what it may be to connect to the the collective grief of a people, my people. I wonder if next year, I might take on Tisha b'Av...

Thanks for posting.

[cellio]

Oops, somehow I missed this comment when you posted it. Sorry!

I have trouble with Tisha b'Av too, because I don't yearn to go back to that. But this personalized that grief for me in a way that nothing previously had. I'm glad it helped you too.