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Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World Hardcover – June 6, 2021

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How do people progress from despair to hope? How does one maintain faith in God's justice in a world that seems cruel and unfair? What is the nature of Israel's culpability and to what degree does sinfulness factor in Israel's calamities? What is the nation's relationship to its land, to Jerusalem, and to the outside world? Artfully combining traditional and academic scholarship, Dr. Yael Ziegler weaves together close readings of the book of Lamentations (Eikha) with an integrated reading of each chapter and examinations of larger themes. To the reader's surprise, Lamentations emerges as a coherent discourse on the way that people - as individuals and as nations - contend with adversity. Independent essays at the beginning and end of the book, as well as in appendices at the conclusion of the chapters, cover topics such as Eikha's historical background, poetic techniques, theology, structure, and linguistic and thematic connections to other biblical books, most notably the chapters of consolation in Isaiah. Wide-ranging biblical and religious themes emerge, a veritable journey through the Bible's most profound questions. Interweaving careful literary analysis with attention to religious themes, Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World illustrates that Eikha is a testimony to the resilient faith of humans, who can persevere through adversity, emerging with a more meaningful relationship with God, with the nation, and with themselves.
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The book of Lamentations has found its teacher. Through magisterial literary analyses, informed by deep psychological and spiritual understanding, Dr. Yael Ziegler shows how the text gives authentic voice to the whirlwind of emotional responses to human suffering while still affirming the central faith in God's abiding goodness. A magnificent reading.
Leon Kass, Professor Emeritus
Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Author of Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus

Once again, Dr. Ziegler does a masterful job in uncovering the multiple layers of meaning in the Biblical text. In a book whose dominant themes are devastating tragedy and utter despair, she shows us the hidden messages of comfort, faith, courage, and resilience - messages that will continue to sustain us through the difficult times we face today.
Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz
Senior Lecturer in Law, Ethics, and Jewish Thought
Yeshivat Ohr Somayach

Dr. Ziegler offers us in her reading of Eikha the genuine consolation that comes with study. Her treatment of Lamentations deals with the broad themes of human suffering, the absence and presence of God, the historical destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of its enemies, and the enduring grief of the Jewish people - all while offering a close textual reading that brings to these ancient words the profound emotions they still evoke for contemporary readers.
Dr. Erica Brown
Director, Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership
George Washington University
Author of Esther: Power, Fate, and Fragility in Exile

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Maggid (June 6, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 556 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592645550
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592645558
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 1.8 x 8.6 inches
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This book is a must read, so insightful and enlightening.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for Tisha B’Av and year-round
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Kohelet is so deep that even attempting to grasp its layers of meaning can be daunting. This is the book you want to guide you through Lamentations in the run-up to Tisha B’Av. But it’s just as powerful the rest of the year, too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars masterful and inspiring
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Dr. Ziegler blends scholarly erudition, rigorous methodology, and religious passion to provide readers of varying backgrounds a meaningful and comprehensive encounter with one of the Bible's most depressing books. She provides dimensions of religious meaning to enlighten and uplift us. An exceptional contribution!
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Israel Drazin
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book that teaches us much that we need to know
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2021
A terrible 9 Av mistake

Many years ago, Judeans, as Jews were called in the past, realized that they should do all that is reasonable to assure that all fellow Judeans are familiar with the contents of the three parts of the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible: the Five Books of Moses, the Books of the Prophets, and the Books called the Writings. To accomplish their goal, they divided the Five Books of Moses with a portion to be read weekly on the Shabbat and parts of the portion on Monday, Thursday mornings, and Saturday night. When the practice began, Jews in Israel read the entire Books of Moses in a three year cycle and the Jews outside Israel, especially in Babylon, in a one year cycle. After a while, all Jews accepted the Babylonian practice.
Then, apparently years later, they started the practice of reading some parts of the prophetical books after the reading of the portion from the Five Books of Moses. These are called haftarahs, meaning “conclusions.” It would have been great if they could divide the prophetical books as they did the Books of Moses and have Jews read all of them yearly or every three years, but they apparently felt this would overburden the congregation who spent most of their time in the synagogues saying prayers.
Then, not wanting Jews to forget the third part of the Tanakh, the Writings, and not wanting to overburden the congregations, they selected five of the books of the Writings and started the practice that one of the five selectees would be read during a holiday that had some connection, even not a very close connection, with the contents of the selected book of the Writing.
In summary, it is significant to realize that the practice to have these reading is to acquaint Jews with their content. An example is the reading of the five chapters of the book of Lamentations, called Eikha in Hebrew, a word meaning “how,” the opening word of the book and of chapters 2 and 4, a book that describes the bewilderment, shame, laments, and outrage of Judeans expressed in 586 BCE when the first temple built by King Solomon and Judea itself was destroyed. “How” could God allow this to happen? The book is also called Kinot, which parallels the English name Lamentations.
Once we understand this, we will understand how too many Jews have perverted the well-meaning rational intentions of Jewish ancestors. Most Jews who read the book do so like they daven (read) the prayers, in a rush, with no intent of trying to understand what they are reading. I once saw a bearded synagogue rabbi fire a very nice highly intelligent un-bearded man because he was not pious enough by the rabbi’s standard to read the book from the Writing to the congregation, and had a bearded man recite the book from the pulpit. While the un-bearded man read the book for the congregation at a fair pace, the bearded man rushed through it as he sped through his prayers. Both the reader and the rabbi failed to understand why Jews were advised by their ancestors to read the Tanakh, including the book of Lamentations.
Unfortunately, most synagogues follow the practice of the pious bearded rabbi, and this is tragic. I recommend that during the Fast of Tisha b’Av, that commemorates the destruction in 586 BCE as well as the destruction of the second temple in 70 CE, that Jews get a good commentary of “Lamentations” and read it as Jewish ancestors suggested. Dr. Yael Ziegler’s 540 page commentary on this biblical book is scholarly yet very readable and enlightening. She reveals the meanings of each of the five Eikha chapters and informs readers of the bitter heart rending emotions of the prophet Jeremiah who may have composed the epic as well as the feelings of his fellow Judeans, and the comfort, courage, and resilience of the early Judeans and those born after them. She also discusses the history of the time and what led up to the debacle, human suffering then and now, the apparent absence of God’s aid, and more.
These are ideas that are relevant today. What a shame it is to close our eyes and ears to these subjects, sit back passively and only daven Eikha without recognizing the elements that made Judaism strong, forgetting Judaism’s stress on education, and do so because of a misguided notion of piety.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Challenges are how we grow. This book shows how.
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021
Lamentations as a deeply poetic and scholarly self-help book? Actually... yes. As a psychologist, the number of undisputed ‘truths’ this text has to offer is astounding. How to find meaning in suffering? Why bad things happen to good people? How can a just God allow injustice? The healthiest stages during mourning. How to accept personal responsibility without taking on too much blame. Guilt vs Shame. The individual and society during collapse and how each can be rebuilt.
While the text of Lamentations offers a discussion of all these themes, it is the text of this magnificent book that is equally astounding. How Ziegler is able to cover all the literary themes is remarkable. But then add the multiple appendixes on theology, poetry, history, modern film (ok, I made the last one up) and the reader is left to wonder just how many doctorates Dr. Ziegler has earned.
I can not recommend this book highly enough. The only negative is that it makes you wish Ziegler would do for all of Tanach what she has done with Lamentations. But as this book teaches, disappointment only makes our gratitude deeper. I am deeply grateful for Ziegler’s masterpiece.
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