R. Shai Held: Hope After Hope Is Lost

How might we maintain hope during a time when it seems to many of us that all hope is gone? One biblical idea is that, although God is frequently disappointed, God also refuses to give up. (What) can we learn from that? This class turns to Tanakh, to midrash , and to medieval Jewish thought to help think more deeply about hope and hopelessness—and about what we can hold onto in dark times.…