There’s a poem Jews sing every evening after lighting Hanukkah candles. It’s called “Maoz Tzur” — Rock of the Ages — and was written during the Crusades, one of the many times when Jewish blood ran through the streets; its lines are laced with the tragedy and longing that typifies Jewish liturgy.
One chokes me up every time I sing it - eight nights every year: “Our salvation takes too long, and there is no end to the bad days.”
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