[Avodah] KI LO CHALU RACHAMAV B'CHILAYON

[David Wacholder]

  The beloved Pizmon "Ulay Yerachem" [begins Mal'achei Rachamim] is a
desperate plea for Hashem's "rachamim" [mercy/caring like a parent].
The rhyme scheme starts Elyon-Higayon-Evyon...Then the end of eight stanzas
evyon,-rishayon-
vizayon-ritzayon-
divayon chivayon-
chilayon-pidayon.

My good friend says it alternates the helplessness and  suffering of His
Nation  for His Sake - against the next verse describing how Hashem has
power to cure the ill.
Thus verse seven - they are mocked ridiculed embarassed for Your Sake - not
allowed to answer back against the mockery - because HIs Mercy will not end
- because He will not allow Destruction -  because if it would stop for a
moment there would be  Chilayon - meaning  destruction. That is the
standard translation.

I myself give verse 7 a more subtle positive pin.
.  Despite all the ongoing mockery and ridicule Your Nation endures, Hashem
utilize that as proof of the devotion of Your Subjects. Since there is so
much limitless Mesirut Nefesh by Your Nation for the sake of Your Name,
there is good reason to give thaat devotion Recognition.

The entire stanza reads
Perhaps He will have mercy/parental love on those who despite suffering for
His Holy Name -
still they keep their love for Him,
His Victory they continuously await,
and they are kept upright by his imminent coming to rescue them!
They endure and have confidence - and it is realistic -
AS  Hashem's Mercy is not hoarded and only given out by rations and small
measure
Rather - it is poured out  in limitless abundance!

A child asks - how much does Hashem have Mercy? This much? That much?
Hashem answers - More and More -  Rachamim is like a mother for a child -
it is endless -
The child is after all the creation and reflection of the mother.  By the
wondrous laws of motherhood, the mother never will stop giving to the
child.
Kilayon is from Isaiah - "who could weigh on the balance beam the weight of
the earth" Mi chal b'mishkal afar ha'aretz -
Just as a mother has limitless caring and concern for her child, so the
same way -
Hashem bears in his "Heart" the Suffering for HIs Name, the endured
mockery, the Prayer for his Glory to appear, the reliance on his rescue and
redemption.
Like the stormy OCEANS  rising and rising until the dams break and a great
onrushing of water comes through -
All of the Suffering and Devotion and Trurst overcomes the obstacles and
becomes a torrent of Rachamim, a Niagara Falls of Caring.
As it comes stronger and stronger, Rachamim  will keep surging  in
limitless quantity and wash away all  the past pain and suffering.

ULAY YERACHEIM!
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