As I prepared today my thoughts on Incarnation and the contemporary Jewish theological response for a meeting with my dissertation suppervisors, I remebered the redemptive power of suffering.

Surely he has borne our griefs / and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, / smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our / transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement / that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. ... and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is.53.4-6

"The White crucifixion" by Chagall visually creates the dual interpretations of Isaiah's proclimation: Jesus the 'tsadik' (righteous man) and the suffering servant of God, Israel.