We, as women, can see beneath the surface. We’ve been gifted with the incredible ability to grapple with even the most trying situation and glean lessons
Mrs. Malkie Klaristenfeld
When Yaakov recalled that his beloved son Yosef had been killed, and that Binyamin was being forced to descend to Mitzrayim, he threw up his hands and cried, “I can’t anymore. Alai hayu chulanah. All the pain in the world has fallen upon me.”
The Baal HaTurim notes that the only two places in Tanach where the word chulanah is used is here, with Yaakov, and in Mishlei, when Shlomo Hamelech sings the praises of the eishes chayil, proclaiming, “v’at allis al kulanah.”
The eishes chayil has the capacity to rise above all the pain in the world. How can we, like the eishes chayil, rise above the pain that surrounds us?
We can do it, because we know and believe that there’s something beneath the surface that we cannot see. We believe that although we don’t understand everything that happens in our lives, and although many times life is difficult, we still know that in Hashem’s Master Plan for the world, everything is beautiful.
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