Parshat Naso is the longest single parsha in the Torah, clocking in at 176 verses. That’s Torah’s way of saying, “Hey, you might want to take a long , serious and contemplative look at what you’re about to learn.”

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For those citing Eikha - The Book of Lamentations - on this Tisha B'Av.

https://www.sefaria.org/Lamentations?tab=contents

Tisha B’Av, or the Ninth of Av is a day of mourning on the darkest day in the Jewish history, a full fast from sunset to the following nightfall, commemorating tragedies that occurred on that day centered mainly on the destruction of both the First and the Second Temples in Jerusalem.