Pride Goes Before a Fall
On a visit to New York, I went to the place where the Twin Towers used to stand. The World Trade Center fell on the 23rd of Elul, 5761, 9/11/2001, in a hijacking attack.
I heard that the place is now called Ground Zero, and wondered why it is not called by a name with the word two, referring to the Twin Towers, the highest buildings in the USA. The place is called Ground Zero because everything was reduced to rubble, with zero trace of its former grandeur.
- The Twin Towers crumbling after a terror attack
I noticed a large sign off to the side. It read, “We are on top of the world.” I was told that this poster had been hanging outside a restaurant which had been located on the highest floor of one of the Towers.
The people who frequented that place surely felt that they were on top of the world. But, like the people of Bavel before them, Hashem taught them Who is above all. The crumbling of the Twin Towers was a message that Hashem Alone stands at the helm of the world and manages it according to His understanding. No other place or person can be called the top of the world.
