“For this our heart suffers; for these our eyes are dim” (Lamentations 5:17).“For this our heart suffers.” Rabbi Simlai said: The Holy One blessed be He gave great suffering to this woman, as after she observes the days of her menstruation she then observes the days of her ziva.23By Torah law, when a woman menstruates she is impure for seven days. During that time, it is also forbidden for her to engage in intercourse with her husband. If she experiences a discharge of blood in the eleven days following the seven days of menstruation, she has the status of a zava and is impure for one additional day. If she discharges blood for three consecutive days during this period of eleven days, she must observe seven clean days without discharge before she may become pure. This is a cause of suffering for women, as indicated by the verse: “And one who suffers through her menstruation” (Leviticus 15:33). Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Yosei HaGelili says: This woman, because she separates from her husband for two or three days, the Torah calls her suffering. That is what is written: “And one who suffers through her menstruation” (Leviticus 15:33). We who departed from our eternal House, from our Temple, for many days and many years, all the more so that we are called suffering. That is why it is stated: “For this our heart suffers.” For what? It is “for these our eyes are dim.”24“For Mount Zion that is desolate.”