that the main difference between Klal Yisroel and Goyim is Middas HaBitachon, and “Bitachon” and “Badchan” (comedy) are related.
Both Avimelech and Paroh had problems with bodily cavities when they started up with Sara Imeinu; no bathroom and no childbirth. Everything is trapped in a: יצְַמ ְרְ restriction. Just as Klal Yisroel left “Mitzrayim” which means “boundary” and an “enclosed” place, so does the world need our Bitachon which makes a “joke” out of the limitations of “impossible” situations.
אֲ שֶ רְהִ ת עַ לַ ל תִ יְב מִ צ רַ יְִםְְבאְיְב Hashem made fun of the Mitzri'im. This is just an example of how He makes a comical joke out of “limitations” and all those locked Matzavim of Yi'ush. And this is the job of a Yid, to break barriers all his life, by playing-down his pecklach, since Hashem can do anything. In this way he saves the world, and he brings-up the Bitachon level.
Laughter kills all our problems. It opens us up and eases us from stress (לַ חֲ צֵ נוּ) and pressures which the world is full of. The more you work on laughter, the further you go (and the longer you live!) In Madregas HaAdam, the Alter Zatzal says that there is nothing “weird” or “strange” or “ridiculous” that Hashem cannot do. The weirdest and craziest Yeshuos can come to a Baal Bitachon.
With the birth of Yitzchok, the seeds of K'riyas Yam Suf were born. And every Yid can create more and more weird Yeshuos in his life, and prove the greatness of Hashem and the stupidity of Tevah and all its limitations.
The True Greatness of a Human Is Davka to Have a Negative Side Which He Overcomes
The greatness of Sara Imeinu is that she was human with a gut reaction of laughter, which she overcame with blind Bitachon. After all, if she had no challenge or Yetzer Hara to feel differently, what Ma'ala and value is her Bitachon? And just as the very essence of Klal Yisroel was built on laughter, it was also built on an action which was criticized, as Hashem said to Avraham: לָ מָּ הְזֶ הְצָ חֲ קָ הְשָ רָ הְְהֲ יִפָ ל אְ מ ה'ְְדָ בָ רְְיחְ יג-יד Why did Sara laugh? Is there anything that Hashem cannot do??
The true greatness of a human is Davka to have a negative side which he overcomes. Perhaps this is the reason why Avraham fed the Malachim (they “needed” him), to be M'ramez that an Adam is greater than a Malach, since only an Adam says: בִ ש בִ ילִ יְְנִ ב רָ אְ הָ עוֹלָ ם the entire universe was created just for me, and a Malach, being only a Chelek (portion) of the Adam’s world, needs an Adam.
וַת כַח שְ שָ רָ הְְל אמֹרְ ל ֹאְ צָ חַ ק תִ יְ כִ יְ יָר אָ הְְיחְ טו Sara denied laughing, since she was afraid. This is the very essence of every Oved Hashem. שֶ בַ עְ יִ פוֹלְ צַ דִ יקְ וָקָ םְְמשליְ כדְ טז A Tzaddik falls seven times, and gets up; i.e., a person who always makes embarrassing mistakes which he’d like to deny, and then he tries again and does Teshuva. So don’t Redd-Zich-Ein (convince yourself) that you, or all those Tzaddikim you admire, aren’t full of mistakes. Sara was most probably the biggest Tzadekes in the history of mankind.
