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From Rabbi Rose, for your reflection:

Immediately after Tisha B’av begins the Haftorot of Consolation, a series of passages from Isaiah helping us move, in God’s Love, toward our New Year.  These words have been immortalized in Handel’s Messiah and many other liturgies.

Nachamu, nachamu

Comfort ye, comfort ye My people,

Saith your God.

2Bid Jerusalem take heart,

And proclaim unto her,

That her time of service is accomplished,

That her guilt is paid off;

That she hath received of the LORD’S hand

Double for all her sins.

3Hark! one calleth:

‘Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD,

Make plain in the desert

A highway for our God.

4Every valley shall be lifted up,

And every mountain and hill shall be made low;

And the rugged shall be made level,

And the rough places a plain;

5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,

And all flesh shall see it together;

For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.’

6Hark! one saith: ‘Proclaim!’

And he saith: ‘What shall I proclaim?’

‘All flesh is grass,

And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;

7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;

Because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it—

Surely the people is grass.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;

But the word of our God shall stand for ever.’

O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,

Get thee up into the high mountain;

O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem,

Lift up thy voice with strength;

Lift it up, be not afraid;

Say unto the cities of Judah:

‘Behold your God!’

Rabbi Rose is on Summer Vacation and will return Aug. 15

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