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Here is another beautiful dvar torah of chizuk which I heard. There are three places where we refer to Hashem by the name “HaMakom:” When we are comforting mourners (HaMakom Yinacheim); when we say acheinu kol beis yisroel (Hamakom Yiracheim Aleyhem ViYotziaim m’tzara l’rvacha) and at the seder right before we mention the four sons (“Baruch Hamakom Baruch Hu…Kineged arba banim dibra Torah…”)
Why is Hashem known by that particular name in those three circumstances? The answer is that the name of “HaMakom” implies that Hashem fills up time and space. Therefore only He is “big” enough to contain our pain at our times of greatest suffering. When a person is in aveilus only HaMakom can contain their pain. When we talk about Jews suffering all over the world in acheinu, again only HaMakom can contain their pain. When we sit down to the seder and all of our children are there, including the second son who excludes himself from everything, parents feel tremendous pain. In that situation as well, only HaMakom can contain the pain of the parents who see the child who is struggling and is causing them so much tzaros.
May this Pesach be a time of cheirus for you and your family as well as your son from all that he is suffering. May you be zoche to see yeshuos during this time of salvation and geulah. And may all of klal yisroel be zoche to the geulah sheliema b’karov!!