Moshe in the Torah, Yishayahu in the Prophets, and Yirmiyahu in the Writings, all express their amazement at the situation and fate of the nation of Israel using the same expression - "eikha" - and our Sages teach that this is no coincidence. The three questions are connected to one another, and they share a single answer. By closely examining the qualities of Moshe as a leader and of Bnei Yisrael as a nation in the desert, we learn the importance of connecting the Written Law with the Oral Law, the Torah of speech, which are the threads that will join Moshe and Bnei Yisrael anew into a single entity.

Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion