Rabbi Nico Socolovsky
Shevarim, we hear... We Are!
The Kotzker Rebbe said that there is nothing more whole than a broken heart!
We live under the idea that we should try to ‘keep it together’. We are constantly preoccupied with trying to show our strengths and trying to hide our weaknesses.
However, the idea of keeping it together might be wrong sometimes.
Grief, pain, frustration, disappointment, anger, embarrassment, etc. They all have an important function in our lives.
We should give recognition to our broken pieces…. There should be a place in which we don’t fight our vulnerability but embrace it. There should be an ark in which with love and compassion we can carry the broken parts of our beings.
Denying them won’t make them disappear, it will just make them heavier, almost unbearable.
During this time of the year, we try to work with our brokenness. In fact, the name for one of the calls of the Shofar is “Shevarim” broken pieces. The Talmud also calls it גניחות groans, screams of pain and grief. The Shofar is calling and inviting through its shevarim to awaken our shevarim.
There is nothing more whole than a broken heart!
Embracing our brokenness - or shevarim - is what gives us the chance to create a whole.
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