You should speak up about the ‘regular’ Jewish women too, all the nashim tzidkaniyos. She sacrifices for her children. She doesn't sleep because of her children. She doesn't eat on time because of her children. She gives away from herself because of her children. She remains poor because of the sake of her children; she wants to send them to cheder, to yeshivah. And she gives up good times and luxuries for the sake of her children. A life of self-sacrifice for an ideal makes her ennobled. She's glorious!
Now, raising a family means many responsibilities and so her mind is occupied; she’s harried maybe. She is dressed very plainly too. There’s nothing to admire in the way that gentiles would.
But we say that she’s the one who’s going to וַתִּשְׂחַק לְיוֹם אַחֲרוֹן. She’ll be laughing on the last day because עֹז וְהָדָר לְבוּשָׁהּ – her plain clothing is actually the most beautiful and the most long-lasting. There are sequins set into her dress, diamonds sewed into her dress; all the diamonds of good deeds.
That’s the clothing that will never go out of style. It will be admired to no end in the Next World. In the Next World the tzaddikim look at women's dresses, and they'll encounter all the sequins; and they're real sequins, all the diamonds, all the doubloons, real gold sewed into her dresses. And therefore, the Jewish mother, the Eishes Chayil, she's going to laugh in the Next World.
That’s the way we make our way through this world; with praises of the tzaddikim. That’s what the Torah wants; as much as possible וְהִצְדִּיקוּ אֶת הַצַּדִּיק. That’s the ratzon Hashem, that we should raise up the righteous ones.
