My dear friend Sharon Katz of Voices Magazine wrote a great post on her Voices blog about how G-d has the last laugh.
Jewish History is like the Perils of Pauline. Time after time we seem like real goners, but then somehow G-d rescues us and we survive. Yes, whether we deserve it or not, G-d comes to our rescue and saves us.
This happened with the very first Jew, Abraham. Abraham and his wife Sarah began what could have been a very short history, because they were barren, didn't have any children. It made no sense, because G-d kept promising that they would have descendants. Low and behold, miraculously when they were 90 and 100 years old, one child was born to them, and we're all somehow descended from that one child, Yitzchak, Issac. And what's the Hebrew meaning of the word יצחקת Yitzchak? He will laugh. And so as Sharon wrote, G-d does and will always have the last laugh, as long as there are G-d fearing, Torah observant people on this earth.
We will, G-d willing, defeat our modern enemies, just like we defeated the Greeks, the Egyptians, Haman and the rest of our ancient ones.
Chag Kasher v'Sameach,
Have a Happy and Kosher Passover
2 comments:
I remember the Perils of Pauline.
But I more associate with Nel.
And I could never make a parallel between Hashem and Dudley! :)
The Six Days War was more like Dudley. Israel never planned on liberating our Land.
G-d's the screenwriter, producer and director.
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