Chasidut sobre Lamentações 3:26

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof etc. (Deut. 22:8). Now, it is stated in the Talmud of [Tractate] Gittin (7a): “He sent to Mar Ookva, ‘People are attacking...’ he drew lines and wrote to him, ‘Be still before the LORD and he will cast them down before you like so many corpses.’” The meaning is that when people sometimes afflict a certain person, it is because of the judgments against him Above; and [the judgments] clothe themselves in people Below to afflict him as is said about the verse, The LORD is on my side as my helper; I shall see through those who hate me (Ps. 118:7). The explanation: the fact that the judgments clothe themselves Below in people is helpful, since through this he can see what is also the case Above; which is to say, I shall see Above through those who hate me, meaning through the haters below. And the correction for this is to raise himself to the aspect of the world of Thought. For there [in the world of Thought] are no judgments, as is written, evil may not dwell with you (Ps. 5:5). And that means that through his remaining silent and accepting what comes to him, waiting quietly (Lam. 3:26) and elevating his thoughts as is written, Be still before the LORD etc. The explanation is that a person should elevate the silence, meaning the thought, to the LORD; and then they will fall like corpses, meaning the judgments will fall through the attachment of his thoughts to the LORD. And just as the roof is the essence of the house, similarly Thought is the essence of a person and shelters over him. For through Thought a person is preserved and knows how to settle himself as is known; and therefore Thought is called a “roof.”