Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yeremia 2:4

“They rose to dance” [32:6]. The Israelites danced and made merry. Tanna debe-Eliyahu writes. Rabbi Akiva said: merrymaking and laughter bring a person to many sins and always to sexual licentiousness. This causes laughter and mockery. “Hear the word of the Lord” [Jeremiah, 2:4]. You should hear the words of God who mocks you. The Holy One said to Israel: My children, I sat for nine hundred and sixty-four generations before the world was created and I studied the Torah and thought about it. From the day that the world was created I sit on My throne of Glory and for eight hours a day I study Torah, eight hours a day I judge the whole world, and eight hours I do charitable acts and I feed the whole world. I do not mock or laugh, except for one hour when the nations say: we want to wage war against the Holy One, as the verse says, “why do nations assemble” [Psalms, 2:1]. The nations assemble to wage war with God. Concerning this, it is written, “He who is enthroned in heaven laughs” [Psalms, 2:4]. That is to say, God sits in heaven and laughs and mocks that the nations want to wage war with Him. Another time we find that God laughs concerning the incense. One takes only good smelling spices and one takes devil’s dung along with it, which stinks. Here God laughs. God also laughs when the evildoer schemes against righteous ones, as the verse says, “the wicked man schemes against the righteous” [Psalms, 37:12]. The evildoer wants to do evil to the righteous one. “Then God laughs at him” [Psalms, 37:13]. God laughs at him. Aaron knew well that he would have great merit because he taught Torah to Israel. Aaron went to teach all of Israel. He taught the one who could not pray how to pray. Whoever could not learn, Aaron taught him Torah. It was not said that Aaron alone, but each Israelite who teaches his friend Torah or prayer or reproves him for good, the Holy One gives him a great reward that he can understand the wisdom of the Torah himself.³³Tanna debe-Eliyahu Raba [ed. M. Ish-Shalom], chap. 14.