Believing in Happy Endings – Overcoming Worry
Dear Friends,
Judaism believes in happy endings. In modern times this can be seen everywhere from the creation of the “Hollywood Ending”, to good triumphing over evil in comic books. (Superheroes from Superman to Spiderman were the creation of Jews) This optimism is so deeply entrenched that when the words of the Prophets from the Haftorah ends on a sad note, the Sages instituted we go back and repeat the last happy thought and end with that! In this week’s talk, we look at the subject of happy endings, worry, belief and how to put them all together.
