"The Lord says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand'" (Psalm 110:1). This verse launches one of the most complex readings in Aggadat Bereshit — about how the Holy One loves and exalts Israel by investing their ancestors with greatness that flows forward through every generation.
The right hand of God is not incidental. In the ancient world, the right hand was the position of honor, of power, of the closest ally. When God places someone at His right hand, He is saying: you are my closest partner. You speak for me. You share my authority. The rabbis read this verse as a promise first made to Abraham, then to the patriarchs collectively, and ultimately to Israel as a whole — a nation elevated not by military might but by proximity to the divine.
The psalm calls the saints in the land "the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight" (Psalm 16:3). The rabbis read "his greatness shall be from him" (Jeremiah 30:21) as a reference to the forefathers — meaning everything Israel has ever received flows from those first three figures. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob: the right hand that never fails, the protection that never lifts. Not because Israel always deserves it. Because the covenant is located in the ancestors, and the ancestors sit at God's right hand, and the right hand holds on.