Tehillim 36, or Why Weeping Is a Segula for Chesed
When Chesed is precious and difficult to find, know that weeping will help.
There is a hint of this in Tehillim: "How precious is Your kindness, G-d...", and the meaning of these words is that Chesed is difficult to find and there is Din, G-d forbid. The way to change this is found in the continuation of this very verse:
- "Uvnei adam - betzel kenafekha yechesayun" - וּבְנֵי אָדָם - בְּצֵל כְּנָפֶיךָ, יֶחֱסָיוּן - (and people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings), which forms the acronym for the word "weeping" - בכי, for weeping helps.
(from Rabbi Nachman of Breslov's Sefer HaMiddot)
