Talmud su Lamentazioni 5:16

⁶⁰This is the continuation of Rule 4 above. The reader on the Ninth of Ab⁶¹Inserted by M and H, omitted in V. says,⁶²Before the reading of the Book of Lamentations, or before the reading of the section of the Torah. ‘Blessed … the true Judge’.⁶³Cf. P.B., p. 292. This blessing is said on a calamity or hearing bad news. Some place the Torah scroll⁶⁴M reads ‘the case of the Torah’. on the ground in a black wrapping and say, The crown is fallen from our head.⁶⁵Lam. 5, 16. The reading and the lamentations are carried out as with a man whose dead lies before him. Some change their [customary] places [in the Synagogue]; others descend from their benches, and all of them roll in ashes and do not greet one another throughout the night and also throughout the day until the people have finished their lamentations. During the recital of the lamentations it is forbidden to speak [any irrelevant] word, or to go outside [the Synagogue], lest one’s mind be diverted from the mourning; and it is obvious that no conversation with a Gentile is permitted.⁶⁶Since the conversation would have no relevance to the destruction of the Temples.