Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ratapan 3:15

The commandment to eat bitter herbs on Passover night applies to all people, whether rich or poor. This commandment is meant to teach us not to say when we see someone suffering, “This is not my problem.” Rather we are all connected to one another in brotherhood/sisterhood. From this we may understand the Midrash on the verse, “’He has filled me with bitterness, he sated me with wormwood:’ (Lam. 3:15) as applying to the Ninth of Av.” (Lamentations Rabbah 3:5) And in the Talmud: a person should not show preference to one child over the others. Because of a coat worth two Selaim which Jacob made for Joseph, the story of the exile of the Jews unfolded and they went down to Egypt. The Tosafot ask regarding this statement: Weren’t Abraham's offspring exiled to Egypt because of what our forefather said, “Lord, how am I to know that I shall inherit it?”⁷⁹According to some of the sages, Abraham’s descendants were forced to go down to Egypt because Abraham expressed a lack of faith by questioning whether he would inherit the land. (Gen. 15:8) The Tosafot answer that the severity of the subjugation was punishment for the hatred that the brothers expressed toward Joseph (while the exile itself was for Abraham’s doubts). We also know what the sages said regarding the destruction of the Second Temple: the Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred; this is the meaning of the Midrash: Because “He filled me with bitterness” on the eve of Passover with causeless hatred, “He sated me with wormwood” on the eve of Tisha B’Av.⁸⁰The bitterness of the slavery in Egypt and the destruction of the Temple both resulted from sinat chinam, causeless hatred.