The Optimistic View

Devarim | Deuteronomy, Devorim | 5772

The famous Talmudic story of Rabbi Akiva laughing when the other sages wept at seeing a fox emerge from the ruins of the Holy of Holies. The insight is that Rabbi Akiva's optimism was based on the certainty that just as the prophecies of destruction came true, so will the prophecies of redemption.

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