Dr. Gafni tells us the story of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Rebbe of Piaseczno...
In the inner places God cries… God’s tears are so
infinitely powerful… And God feels the infinite pain of the world… And
if that tear would but fall in the outer world, the world would be
destroyed. So, in an act of infinite love, God holds the divine tears in
the inner house, in order to allow the world the possibility of
existence.
And the Rebbe of Piaseczno so loved God that he was willing to enter
his own destruction, in order to enter the inner house of the Divine to
cry with God…
What is God doing when this happens? God is crying. God’s tears are
shedding. And how can you believe in a God who cries? How can you
believe in a God who doesn’t cry?
And for me, in my life, at times when I couldn’t find the Divine,
when I couldn’t find the sacred energy of joy, the energy that I most
naturally live in and love, I was able to find the divine tears. And
knowing that God is crying, that God’s power is not only infinite, but
God’s pain is infinite, that God suffers in our suffering, and in that
place of our suffering we can actually find God, because God is
suffering with us. And in that finding of God in the depths of
suffering, something falls away, and the ultimate sweetness, the
ultimate love is revealed–even in the darkest of places. Because in the
suffering itself, God is with us. In the tears themselves, God cries
with us.
Let all the tears be healed. Let all pain be transformed to joy. Let all hurt and betrayal be transformed to love.
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