Tears of rage … Tears of grief … To end up drinking the dissolved book … To drink the tear and wonder about the strangeness of its taste … the blurred and transparent testimony borne by this tear this small infinitely small tear This Book of the Salt / This Book of the Sand / This Book of the Tear
Reb Jacob also believed in eloquence. He compared it to a stone tearing up the surface of a lake and to its misleading rings. The wounded closes right up again. But the rings multiply and grow and bear witness – oh mockery – to the intensity of the pain I can’t tell you why we cry But I can repeat this hadith