(The Segulah of Learning Zera Shimshon)
In this week's parsha, Sarah Imeinu passes away and Avraham Aveinu comes to eulogize her and to cry. The Zera Shimshon brings the Maavor Yabok that says that hespedim are crucial when someone passes away, because it causes people to cry. Crying opens the Gates of Tefillah (since the Gates of Tears are never closed), and this redirects the din from the niftar.
The Zera Shimshon relates that the kuf in "v'livkosah" is written small in the Torah to tell us that Avraham did not cry over the physical loss of Sarah, rather her spiritual essence in this world.
It is a natural response for people to react to loss with tears/crying. The Torah says that Avraham came to eulogize...and bewail her, telling us that his crying was not just the natural reaction to his loss. His crying was far more meaningful; it was a mourning for her neshama no longer being among them.
Source: Zera Shimshon Parshas Chayei Sarah
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