Question: It is written in Kabbalistic sources that a person with a broken heart is called a hero. Please explain why a hero is the one with the broken heart?

Answer: Indeed it sounds so unusual. It has even been said that there is nothing better than a broken heart. After all, when a person feels that all his desires, intentions, passions, and impulses are broken, and he has nothing he can cling to like an anchor so he does not drown in life, then such a state is the best.

It is good in that we have nothing to hold on to other than the Creator.

Comment: But if we could hold on to the Creator without any dramatic situations, that would also be nice. 🙂

My Response: No, this is not possible. A person can only cling to the Creator when he is hanging by a thread with nothing to hope for and in a second he will drop and fall down. This feeling is so terrible that death is better than such a life. It is in this state that he can come to the Creator.

Of course I do not advise anyone to come to this. The wisdom of Kabbalah says that we should recognize this and come to the Creator in advance, knowing that there is none else besides Him; He governs everything and all our future states are in Him.

In general, although there is none one besides Him, we should still try to choose the states ourselves as close as possible to the Creator.
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From KabTV’s “Spiritual States” 11/27/22

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