Today I woke up, looked into the mirror
at the aging face, the scars and skin tags
the cuts and tiny imperfections, our aging skins
unmistakably reminding us...
The inner flaws and decades of lies,
deceits and betrayals of self and others
The shortcomings and character defects
shall I continue?
Then it dawned on me
the Almighty deals with every human being
every day....
He is the very mirror behind the mirror
looking in on each of us as we brush our teeth and shave...
for centuries and millennia..
putting up with, suffering our flaws
human flaws...
humanities' imperfections
the wars, the terror
man's inhumanity to man
shall I continue?
Then I had an outpouring of rachmonus
of compassion for Him, Ribono shel Olam!
what You have to put up with!!
oi vey!
oi vey!
I am so sorry for you!!!
You are so condemned to eternity
there is or never will be an end of this for YOU!!
You condemned Yourself to history!
Then I realized..
What the Degel Machaneh Ephraim meant
by his Baal Shem Tov teaching, that all our flaws are
also a reflection of the identical flaw in the Shekhinah!
So....She is the one behind the mirror!
So.... we must pray for HER!
(and the Baal Shem Hakadosh claims,)
then we will be automatically "fixed" (tikkun)
when She gets fixed.
