Tehillim 2:3 writes: "Yoshev bashamayim yischak — He laughs in derision at evildoers.” Sadly, that laughter is not heard here on earth
After I stopped chuckling, I realized that beneath all this humor, there lies a covert commentary on human nature and on current events.
For that greeting is a mordant echo of what has happened in the so-called civilized world ever since October 7 two years ago. We are so accustomed to the insanity of the world’s reaction that simply to mention its sheer madness has become a cliché. Would any reasonably sane person concoct a scenario where vicious terrorists unleash unspeakable horrors upon innocent men women and infants, and then blame the victims ? Could any normal person imagine that the sympathy of the world would be directed not at the victims but at the murderers, and that this brutal massacre would engender intensified Jew-hatred around the world instead of diminishing it — ostensibly because Israel had the temerity to strike back? Which, of course, the world depicted as genocide, while the real genociders, through some evil alchemy, became the pitiful genocidees.
Jews are being told by many leaders of the so-called free world to think hard and consider what they did to cause such brutality. And no one is chuckling at this insanity; it has become the new norm. Just as trading 20 living and innocent Israeli hostages for 250 convicted Hamas murderers is the new norm.
No one is chuckling except, perhaps, “ He Who dwelleth in the heavens,” of Whom Tehillim 2:3 writes: “yoshev bashamayim yischak — He laughs in derision at evildoers.” Sadly, that laughter is not heard here on earth.
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