Ocean of Tears

This is from the Daily Zohar site

There is a beautiful story called ‘Ocean of Tears’ and song by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and it is based on the verse, Lamentation 1:16. In this video the song and story is performed beautifully by his Daughter, Neshama Carlebach.

From my reading of Lamentations

1:1 How does the city sit empty, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow, she that was great among the nations, and a princess among the provinces; how is she become tributary!
2 She weeps sorely in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her friends she has none to comfort her: all her friends have abandoned her; they submitted to her enemies.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like the deer that find no grass, and they have fled without strength before the pursuer.

16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who could relieve the pain of my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

2:11 My sight fails due to the tears of my eyes, my bowels are in turmoil, my liver is poured out upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the children and the little infants faint in the streets of the city.
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O one who is the wall of the daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the pupil of your eye cease to weep.

3:48 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye trickles down, and does not cease, flowing without any intermission,
50 ...until Israel's Father looks down, and sees all this from heaven.
51 The water of my eye lays heavy upon my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

כ רוח אפינו משיח יהוה נלכד בשחיתותם אשר אמרנו בצלו נחיה בגוים

4:20 The spirit, the breath, of our nostrils, the anointed one of our Father in heaven, was caught and trapped in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

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