The Concealed and Veiled Truth of the Heart of Darkness-Which pervades in God: A.J. Heschel

"O Lord, why dost Thou make us err from thy ways
And harden our hearts, so that we fear Thee not?"

Isaiah 63:17

The great mystagogical Rabbi Heschel comments: "There must be a profound  reason for this fact, for man's supreme misery. The reason perhaps, perhaps, is that God in His relation to us follows not only the path of compassion, but justice, and that his compassion is concealed by His justice, as justice is concealed by compassion."

---GOD IN SEARCH OF MAN: PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM