In a scene from the romantic comedy, ‘While You Were Sleeping', "Ox" Callaghan is waxing eloquent at the breakfast table one morning about those rare moments in life when everything seems to be going just right and falling into place. "In that one minute," he says, "you have peace." But his son, Jack, who is Ox's partner in the family business, has finally decided it is time to break the news to his dad that he wants out to start his own business, and so he bursts his father's bubble, saying, "Pop, this isn't that minute."[1]
The Jewish people in the sixth century BC really didn't need anyone to tell them that they were not in one of those good times. On the contrary, God's chosen people were going through one of the darkest periods in their history, one that would, perhaps, only be supe…