What do you do when it seems that the world is going crazy?

Trump wants Greenland and imposes tariffs and it sounds like he’s going to invade then he doesn’t invade then he says that he worked out a framework and he’s withdrawing the tariffs. European diplomats and leaders are going nuts.

Trump says he’s going to bomb Iran and then he says he won’t bomb because the regime stopped the killings then he starts moving an aircraft carrier and fighter jets into the area; now he indicates that if Iran doesn’t restart its nuclear efforts to build a bomb and if they don’t kill protesters then he may not attack. People watching this are scratching their heads and trying to figure out what Trump is going to do. Maybe Trump himself doesn’t know what he’s going to do.

Russia and Ukraine talk to Trump about making peace, then Trump says that when one leader wants to make peace the other leader doesn’t and vice versa. Now Trump indicates that maybe there’s an incentive for them to make peace but if they don’t make peace then they’re both stupid. Everyone wonders if there is going to be peace.

Trump first says that Gazans who want to leave Gaza should be able to go. He changes his mind and eventually establishes a board of peace for Gaza, then the board of peace expands to include bringing peace to the whole world, then he invites 60 leaders to join. Some leaders still aren’t sure if they should join because it could affect the work of the United Nations. In the meantime Greenland was in the middle of everything so that Trump was asking European leaders to join the board of peace when he’s ready to attack Greenland. Israel didn’t want certain people to join but now those people are joining anyways. Smotrich says they should get rid of the whole thing and just occupy Gaza and settle it. It’s such a conundrum of back-and-forth up and down with things changing and with different and competing interests clashing that nobody can quite figure out where this is all going.

When the world seems to be going crazy, how do we make sense of all of this, how should we approach it? How should we deal with it? When it becomes very hard to predict what’s going to happen, when things change so quickly back-and-forth and in all different directions and sometimes all at once, how do we make sense of all this?

Here’s the answer: trust in G-d. That’s it. When things seem so overwhelming and we just can’t figure it out and we don’t know where everything is headed; when the whole world seems to be at a constant crisis point and nobody can make sense of where it’s all going, trust in G-d.

Two years ago when Israel was attacked on October 7, people were very despondent. When antisemitism was rising and demonstrators supported Hamas and people didn’t know what to make of it, miraculously Israel bounced back and G-d helped them to defeat all their enemies spectacularly and surprisingly. All of a sudden we heard the news that beepers hit Hezbollah warriors. All of a sudden we heard the news that Iranian leaders and scientists were assassinated in their beds, and Israel bombed and Trump bombed and the nuclear facilities were significantly damaged.

When things looked hopeless, we saw that they were not. We saw how miraculously the Jewish people bounced back. We saw how, because of the antisemitism, so many Jews returned to their heritage and to their Jewish identity. We saw so many wondrous events happening.

So when things seem impossible, when it seems like there’s no way to deal with events, to figure out what’s going on, when we wonder what will be, the answer is trust in G-d. The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that very often,  as a reward for the trust, G-d speeds along the salvation.

I remember when the Rebbe said that also when it comes to Redemption with Moshiach, that we should trust that G-d will bring it very soon, imminently.

Trust in G-d. When everything seems crazy and unmanageable and impossible, trust in G-d..