Tag: Rabbi Chananya Weissman

When Victory is Defeat: Hysterical Optimism and the Squandering of a Nation

In the landscape of a nation perpetually at war, a peculiar and dangerous psychological phenomenon has taken root. It is a sentiment that masquerades as faith, as resilience, as pragmatic hope. But in truth, it is a kind of fever, a desperate and energetic denial of a grim reality. The…