Crying is a uniquely human endeavor full of metaphoric inferences: saltwater in little droplets welling up in the eyes. Water and salt are complete opposites; the attributions of water, flowing kindness in small packets of unity, are in opposition to the rock hard salt dug from the earth. The combination of these two opposites at the advent of an emotional breakdown is mysterious indeed.

The Cabala which explains the intricate workings of the body in the framework of the celestial worlds that inhabit the light of creation explains the act of crying as: the inability of the mind to comprehend what is being revealed. Rabbi Akiva 2,000 years ago laughed and cried at the same moment when he received the inner teachings from his teacher. He laughed because he was happy, but he cried because what was being revealed was more than he could comprehend at the moment.

The Cabala goes on to explain that the brain is composed primarily of water and the contractions that happen within the mind at incomprehensible news causes the salt of constriction to mix with the waters of kindness producing salty tears. There is a second kind of crying called: tears from the walls of the heart; instead of the damp mist of watery thoughts from the brain, this second type of crying has torrents of emotions in rushing rivers of blood.

The heart feels the body in a more intimate fashion since the blood circulates throughout the body feeding and carrying away waste; the brain feels the body through the nervous system which provides electrical impulses to the brain causing a more aloft perception of the body—yet, each the heart and brain produces tears: tears of compassion, tears of rage, tears of happiness and tears of sorrow, tears from the heart and tears from the brain.

But, there is a third type of the crying called: crocodile tears. When the crocodile devours its prey large tears flow from the eyes of the beast. It is not compassion that produces tears, but simply an animal reaction to winning or losing.

Recently, the public has been treated to a very private admission by the head of the regime that he cries in the White House. Having arrogantly waged war and lost, the public is left to guess if these are tears of admission that the president is wrong or perhaps they are tears of compassion for the millions of people killed, maimed, terrorized, traumatized, displaced and left orphans and widows, but most probably they are just crocodile tears—just a physical reaction, not even human.

Now, the latest candidate for president has played the crying card leaving the populous to wonder: are these tears genuinely generated by the mind unable to comprehend the vastness of the job or tears of the heart feeling humanity or maybe they are just crocodile tears—big, but meaningless.