Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Vayelech – Shabbat Teshuva Gates, Locked and Unlocked Rabbi Eliezer said: Since the destruction of the Temple, the gates of prayer are locked, for it is written, Also when I cry out, He shuts out my prayer (Lamentations 3:8). Yet though the gates of prayer are locked, the gates of tears are not,  for it is written, Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry, hold not your peace at my tears (Psalms 39:13)… Rav...