Word: shamayim
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Tisha b'Av is really the culmination of three weeks of mourning during which yeray shamayim (a pious Jew) does not marry, eat meat, bathe in streams, lakes, seas, cut his hair. On the eve of Tisha b'Av, he goes supperless to schul (synagogue), takes off his shoes, puts on his tefillin (phylacteries-leather arm bands used in prayer) and tkalis (prayer shawl). Then he squats on the floor and in the candlelit synagogue chants the Lamentations of Jeremiah ("How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow...
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