Kabbalah sa Mga Panaghoy 3:29: Sha'arei Kedusha

Our sages, of blessed memory, stated,³⁹⁸Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 44b “One should plead for mercy every day, and that he should have no enemies.” It is written,³⁹⁹Lamentations 3:29-30 “Let him put his mouth to the dust… Let him offer his cheek to he who smites him, let him be filled with disgrace.” Happy is he who hears his disgrace and does not respond.⁴⁰⁰Sefer Mitzvot Gadol, Prohibitive Commandment 12 Isaiah the Prophet thus stated,⁴⁰¹Isaiah 50:6 “I submitted my body to those who smite and my cheeks to those who pluck; I did not hide my face from humiliation and spit.”