A Soulful Journey

  Said Rabbi Eleazar, "He who divorces his first wife, the very altar sheds tears." - Sanhedrin 22a And why not?  When love dies, does not the whole earth grieve?

"Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said,
If you are walking alone on a journey, you should occupy yourself with Torah.
  If you have a headache, you should occupy yourself with Torah.
  If you have a sore throat, you should occupy yourself with Torah.
  If you bones ache, you should occupy yourself with Torah.
 If your entire body is in pain, you should occupy yourself with Torah." - Eruvin 54a Is this true?  It most certainly is true that when Torah is  elevated   above  all else, real freedom from woes arrives. "It was stated, “Rabbi Elazar said, ‘No harm happens to people on mitzvah missions, neither en route to the mitzvah, nor on the way back.’” - Pesachim 8b Is this so?  Harm  is when you lose control.  People who  act  on God's Will do not make that assumption.

Rabbi Elazar says: Tzaddikim are good people say little and do much.

Once Rabbi Elazar son of Rabbi Shimon was coming from Migdal Gedor, from the house of his teacher. He rode along the riverside on his donkey, and was feeling happy and elated because he had studied much Torah. There chanced to meet him an exceedingly ugly man, who greeted him, "Peace be upon you, my master!" Rabbi Elazar did not return his salutation but instead said to him, "How ugly this person is! Are all the people of your city as ugly as you?" "I do not know," said the man. "But go to the craftsman who made me, and say to him: How ugly is the vessel which you have made!" Realizing that he had done wrong, Rabbi Elazar dismounted from his donkey, prostrated himself before the man, and said to him, "You are right. Forgive me!" But the man replied, "I will not forgive you until you go to the craftsman who made me and say to him, 'How ugly is the vessel which you have made.'"   -Ta’anit 20a