Don’t Curse Tomorrow with the Despair of Today
Parshat Balak. The sense of defeatism, all too present after the events in this country over the last week, is the most dangerous myth threatening our future right now. To throw up our hands and surrender to the myth of inevitability is to relinquish the most precious gift given to humanity: our capacity to change the world around us. We can be scared without being resigned. We can be exhausted without being fatalistic. We can be discouraged but nonetheless courageous.