Еврейская мысль к Эйха 1:4

Throughout all of time and in every generation, when the generation has flaws they go through all of their moral nature. A generation that has forgotten his god, will also be unruly and rebellious, glutton and drunkard. Since the beginning of our history, When the people of Israel had forsaken their god and rock. On the one hand, “those who sacrifice people and kiss the lamb” “stick to the false idols” and “forget the God who saved them”. And on the other, “prostitution and wine takes the heart”, “some come as thieves and some wait outside to steal”. Here “Women cry out for Tamuz”, and there “each brother holds you from the back and each friend will gossip”. And this line is also with us as we are in the diaspora. This generation is weird, it is mischievous and wild, but also superior and mighty. Even if we take out of the equation those few crude individuals who use this wind of licentiousness to commit theft and other injustices, we will still find that the audacity thrives and grows. The son is no longer ashamed of his father(’s view of him) and youngsters will humiliate elders. On the other hand - the feelings of charity, decency, justice rise and grow. The strength of the sciences and the ideologies gushes and rises. Large parts of the younger generation do not hold respect to its traditions, not because their souls have been mucked, they did not fall from those borders where the law and justice are in line with common sense. But it is so because they rose to a [spiritual/ethical) position and due to the character that they use to view the world - law and justice, tradition and faith in general, all that is pure and holy, every divine,eternal, great truth that is to be found in creation. This is due for lack of enough work, as part of their study, learning the fundamental emotional and intellectual aspects of the Torah space, “הועם זהב ושונא הכתם הטוב" (איכה א ד)And this leads them to think that everything is much lower than its actual worth. [the generation] grows and rises at once. Trouble has rinsed it, washed it, gave it a gift of heart and a thinking mind, a generation that invents new ideas, that flies. A generation that cannot stand the lows anymore. Their mind gave them wings and it is soaring to the heights, yet even those heights don't hold what they are after. It has risen above the Jerusalem of the earth that is destroyed, desolated, and humiliated to the bottom of the depths. But it cannot enter the Jerusalem of high above, since “God would not enter the Jerusalem of above until it enters the Jerusalem of the Earth” (מסכת תענית דף ה עמוד א). "Royal shrine, city of king. Rise up and leave your ravaged state.You have dwelt long enough in the valley of tears. Now God will take pity on you. Awake, awake, Your light has come! Arise, shine, Wake up and sing: YHVH’s glory dawns upon you." (לכה דודי, Translation - Open Siddur Project)