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<div>The beloved Pizmon "Ulay Yerachem" [begins Mal'achei Rachamim] is a desperate plea for Hashem's "rachamim" [mercy/caring like a parent]. </div><div>The rhyme scheme starts Elyon-Higayon-Evyon...Then the end of eight stanzas </div>
<div>evyon,-rishayon- </div><div>vizayon-ritzayon-</div><div>divayon chivayon-</div><div>chilayon-pidayon. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I myself give verse 7 a more subtle positive pin. </div><div>. 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. </div>
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<div>The entire stanza reads </div><div>Perhaps He will have mercy/parental love on those who despite suffering for His Holy Name - </div><div>still they keep their love for Him,</div><div>His Victory they continuously await, </div>
<div>and they are kept upright by his imminent coming to rescue them!</div><div>They endure and have confidence - and it is realistic - </div><div>AS Hashem's Mercy is not hoarded and only given out by rations and small measure</div>
<div>Rather - it is poured out in limitless abundance! </div><div><br></div><div>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 - </div>
<div>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. </div><div>Kilayon is from Isaiah - "who could weigh on the balance beam the weight of the earth" Mi chal b'mishkal afar ha'aretz - </div>
<div>Just as a mother has limitless caring and concern for her child, so the same way - </div><div>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. </div>
<div>Like the stormy OCEANS rising and rising until the dams break and a great onrushing of water comes through - </div><div>All of the Suffering and Devotion and Trurst overcomes the obstacles and becomes a torrent of Rachamim, a Niagara Falls of Caring. </div>
<div>As it comes stronger and stronger, Rachamim will keep surging in limitless quantity and wash away all the past pain and suffering. </div><div><br></div><div>ULAY YERACHEIM! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote>
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