God Heals Our Wounds
讚讘专讬诐 专讘讛 驻专砖讛 讜
讬讙 讚”讗 讝讻讜专 讻讬讜谉 砖专讗讛 诪砖讛 诪讛 讛讙讬注 诇讗讞讜转讜 讛转讞讬诇 爪讜讜讞 讜诪转驻诇诇 注诇讬讛 讘讻诇 诇讘讜 讜谞驻砖讜 (讘诪讚讘专 讬”讘) 讗诇 谞讗 专驻讗 谞讗 诇讛 专讘谞谉 讗诪专讬 讗诪专 诪砖讛 专讘砖”注 讻讘专 注砖讬转 讗讜转讬 专讜驻讗 讗诐 讗转讛 诪专驻讗 讗讜转讛 讛专讬 诪讜讟讘 讜讗诐 诇讗讜 诪专驻讗 讗谞讬 讗讜转讛.
Deuteronomy Rabbah 6:13
“Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt” (Deut. 24:9). When Moses saw what befell his sister, he began to cry out and pray with all his heart and soul on her behalf, “Heal her now, O God, I beseech You!” (Num. 12:13). The Rabbis say: Moses said, “Master of the Universe, already long ago You granted me the power of healing. If you will heal her, all is well; but if not, I will heal her.”
The suffering of those we love stays with us and affects us deeply, years after the fact; in Deuteronomy, Moses finds himself thinking about his deceased sister’s illness and the pain he felt at her suffering many years prior, and now we find ourselves thinking about the events of 9/11 and recalling the pain we felt a decade ago.
How typically human for Moses to beg God for help at the time of his suffering; and how typically Jewish for Moses to turn inward at a certain point, to look to see what he personally could do to help. In the days and weeks that followed 9/11, one of the overwhelming effects was the outpouring of kindness and compassion from strangers and loved ones to those directly affected by the attacks. Indeed the decade that has passed has seen a remarkable transformation of our nation into one whose experience of suffering has engendered a different kind of sensibility and sensitivity. We have internalized and continue to work on internalizing that one of the lessons of 9/11 is that of tikkun ‘olam, the need for each of us to be healers in God’s broken world.
