It also proudly shows the rest of Britain the vibrancy and rich culture of modern Jewish life. Like a synagogue, it’s where people turn to feel part of something bigger. Jewish News holds our community together and keeps us connected. Sylvia Rothschild has been a community rabbi in south London for 30 years.We can resolve the biblical contradiction with a nuanced reading – “enemies” are individuals who hate us, while the “wicked” are not personal adversaries, but can be read as a generic or systemic wickedness. So while Torah may be ambiguous, Rabbinic Judaism is clear that celebrating an enemy’s downfall is not acceptable. Talmud tells of Rabbi Meir, praying for his harassers to die and being reminded by Beruria his wife that his prayer is wrong, we pray for the end of sin, not sinners. In Pirkei Avot Shmuel haKatan repeats: “Do not rejoice at your enemy’s downfall”. We spill a drop of wine when reciting each plague at seder, lessening our joy as we consider the fate of those whom the plagues affected. But God said, ‘The work of my hands is drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?’” (Meg. So which is it? We have the custom of reciting only half-Hallel on the last six days of Pesach, referencing the Talmudic story that “when the Egyptians were drowning in the Sea of Reeds, the angels wanted to sing. Get The Jewish News Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories
And “when your enemy falls do not rejoice, and when he stumbles let your heart not exalt” (24:17).
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