Crying With The Shechinah:
The following incredible story is related in Sefer HaDeah V’Hadibur, in the name of the Toldos Aharon Rebbe shlita:
After Yom Kippur one year, the Chozeh was speaking to one of the leading gaonim of the generation, Rav Yaakov Yisroel zy’a, the Magid of Kremnitz and author of Shevet M’Yisroel on Tehillim. The Chozeh told him that he had provided illumination for the world with kedusha for that year and that he had created a great stir in Shomayim.
The cause of all of this was that Rav Yaakov Yisroel’s children and grandchildren would come to him on erev Yom Kippur every year to obtain his blessing. He had a large family and it took a long time to bless everyone. This was a time of tremendous hisorerus for the family.
That year, one daughter was very busy in her home and she and her son arrived at her father’s house very late. Rav Yaakov Yisroel had already left to go to shul to daven. Since he was the Magid of the city, he had to deliver a lecture before Kol Nidrei and he wasn’t able to wait for his daughter to arrive.
When the daughter heard that her father had already left for shul and that she and her son had missed his bracha, she grabbed her son’s hand and began running to catch up with him. They met him at the door of the shul, just as he was about to go in, and she began to cry and beg him to bless her and her son. When the boy saw his mother crying, he also began to weep. The Magid asked the boy, ‘Why are you crying?’ He answered, ‘Since my mother is crying, I am crying too.’
When Rav Yaakov Yisroel heard this, he immediately blessed his daughter and grandson. He then hurried into the shul, opened the Aron Kodesh and began his drasha. He called out, ‘Rabosai! My grandson just told me that if his mother cries, he also cries. Our mother, the holy Shechinah, is crying for us, as the Gemara (Brachos 3A) says that the Shechinah cries and says: ‘Woe to my sons because I had to destroy My house and burn My chamber and exile them amongst the nations because of their sins.’ We must cry together with our mother. Now is the time to cry about how we forced the Shechinah into exile due to our sins!’
The entire congregation began to weep and they all did full teshuva. The Chozeh saw all of this with his ruach hakodesh and he was telling the Magid that this caused a great commotion in Shomayim that annulled many harsh decrees.