White as Snow

The heaviest snow storms for decades have struck the eastern US, paralyzing air and road transport, and bringing Washington DC to a standstill.

In the Midrash-Book of Metaphor says that the angel Michiel, angel of kindness and angel Gavreil, angel of severity, come together and make peace with one another through white hair–the sign of elder. The Cabala explains how snow originated beneath the Kesay HaKavod/Seat of Honor which hovers upon creation.

The idea of a seat indicates how the Creator is humbled to be lowered into creation. Beneath the Kesay HaKavod/Seat of Honor is snow which when melted through the power of prayer becomes water–the Torah is compared to water that comes from a very high place to a very low place without changing.

Physical snow is a sign of Chesed/Kindness from the source. That such a large amount of snow should fall on the nation’s capitol perhaps is a sign from heaven as is the turning of the President’s hair to white is a sign Gevorah/Severity being sweetened.

This unusual amount of snow on the nation’s capitol closing down institutions and keeping everyone in their place is reminder of God’s kindness for our country–a country like no other, peopled from every part of the globe.