The Jewish Mental Response to Adversity
Is to recognize Hashem’s Chessed in protecting us from it up until now.
See Rabbi Hirsch’s brilliant commentary to the Parsha of the poisonous snakes, Parshas Chukas (Bamidbar 21:6 – 9).
(Ayn Rand once rejected what she termed the “Malevolent Universe Premise“: As the simplest empirical refutation of that metaphysics—as evidence of the fact that the material universe is not inimical to man and that catastrophes are the exception, not the rule of his existence—observe the fortunes made by insurance companies.)
