"Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power" (Exodus 15:6). The rabbis tracked the right hand of God through every book of scripture and found the same pattern everywhere: when the right hand appears, it shields Israel. It does not hold weapons. It holds people.
Aggadat Bereshit uses a parable: a king's son had a personal guardian from birth — someone who conducted business on his behalf, who interceded with the king, who smoothed every path. Eventually the king appointed the guardian to official position, but the prince said: "Let me conduct my own business." The father replied, "I cannot take away your guardian — but I will also be at your side." The guardian and the king together. This is Israel's double protection.
The psalm's image — "Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool" (Psalm 110:1) — is read not as a military promise but as a posture. To sit at God's right hand is to be positioned where no enemy can reach you without first going through God. David understood this. Abraham understood it before him. The right hand doesn't strike — it holds. And what it holds, it does not drop. The rabbis quoted this promise back to God in every generation of exile: You said Your right hand would not lose its grip. We are waiting for You to remember what Your right hand is holding.