It has nothing to do with our technological innovation, our ability to discover or invent amazing things like Waze, the latest cancer treatments, telecommunications wonders, and more. Nor does it have anything to do with our political leaders, current, past or future.
There is, honestly, a simple reason and it has existed as long as there has been a Jew alive.
When our enemies gather on the hills above us, when they wage their battles in the United Nations and world courts, it means nothing because what we have, is this…
The Hasidic movement, in its origin, was so different than it is today – then, it was to focus on the joy of living, of song and dance. In too many ways, the modern Hasidic movement has become more like the people against whom Rebbe Nachman of Breslov rebelled.
And so, around the world, and especially in Israel, there are those who want to get back to the simple joy of celebrating who we are. They’ll stop in the middle of the street and start dancing…and amazingly enough, others will run up to join them. This will happen in the snow, at the kotel, in the rain, on a highway and there, close to the Gaza border.
So long as there are Jews who will dance for the sheer pleasure of thanking God for our very existence, for all the blessings He has given to us, Israel will never be destroyed or defeated.