Life, birth and death and everything in between, is dynamic and continuous.
Hebrew Wisdom teaches that the Gates of Tears are always open as is our opportunity to do teshuvah return to our true self and G!D.
Are the gates of tears only for tears of sadness, hopelessness?
Can the tears be of joy of coming home? Can they be both? Remembering Hagar in the desert I ask ‘Does one bring us to another? ‘
Perhaps we cry out of fear, loneliness and sorrow and the result is teshuvah, of returning to the Path and a coming home to emet, the truth, and realizing we are at One-ment with our G!D all the time.
Perhaps that is experiencing a zivug, a holy relationship, as Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik writes of in Lonely Man Of faith; G!D was lonely for us as we were experiencing our loneliness.
So I will cry, whine and emote all my feelings GW they are the path to the open Gates of Tears, to joy in my heart and Home.
Society of the Vav
20 Tishrei 5768
Hol Hamoed Succot
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