THE GATE OF TEARS

 after watching the heartbreaking Levaya of Yakir zt”l, and hearing so many speak of this special person, I kept asking myself, why do these beautiful young men, devoted to the Land of Israel have to die? Why?

so many tears Hashem! Why? and then this came my way:

https://www.foundmyself.com/Natalie+Holden/art/tear-drop/95243

There are many gates to Heaven. Nowadays, however, they are all closed. All of them, that is, except one. The Gate Of Tears. When someone prays to G-d with eyes of tears, those prayers fly straight through the Gate Of Tears. The Gate of Tears is never closed.

If so, why does it need a gate?

Take a walk around an orphanage at night. You wonít hear a sound. In spite of the many young children there, no one cries. We only cry when we know someone will answer us. In an orphanage, no one is there to answer the tears.

Yom Kippur is a day when we should cry. We should cry because we know there is Someone there to answer us. That we have a Father, a King who will deal with us with charity and kindness if we throw ourselves on His mercy.

There's another kind of tears though. A crying of hopelessness. A crying which doesnít implore G-d's help. It's a crying which says that we don't believe G-d can really help us, or worse, that there is no One there to hear our tears.

That ís why the Gate of Tears has a gate. For the tears of hopelessness.

• The Kotzker Rebbe
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Is Hashem waiting for the bucket of tears to fill and overflow and then He will send Mashiach??
  
  

Source for Gate of Tears: Ohr Somayach Institutions www.ohr.edu[https://ohr.edu/holidays/rosh_hashana_and_yom_kippur/teshuva/1176]