"Then was our mouth filled with LAUGHter and our tongue with joyful SONGs.
Then the nations said, "The LORD has done spectacular things for them""
Happy HOLY-days to all
ART for the HEART
Whole World in Your Hands
The Holiness of Humor
A great big Thank you to Ask Moses and Rabbi David Sacks for this great article which I paraphrased below.
"... From a comedy perspective, the surest way to get a laugh is by juxtaposing the expected with the unexpected.
Thus, when we're convinced that the world is one way and the opposite happens - something that puts us in touch with how great and marvelous the world really is -- the result is laughter.
With this in mind, one of the perplexing things in the Torah is the fact that the name of our holy patriarch Yitzhak, who represents the spiritual attribute of strength, is Hebrew for the word "laughter".
You might ask what does strength have to do with laughter since they seem like total opposites.
Sarah was a motherless woman of ninety. What is the last thing such a woman would expect to have? A baby! And what is it that our holy mother Sarah has? A baby! Laughter itself!
Thus, Yitzhak becomes the embodiment of the unexpected. That's the explanation from the comedy standpoint.... "
