
How can you maintain hope and optimism when everything is crashing down around you? What is the secret of the Jewish people who have endured persecution, pogroms, and terrible suffering for 2,000 years - and still have not lost their faith and hope? In a fascinating lesson ahead of Tisha B'Av, Rabbi Yoav Akrish discusses the deep secret of Jewish resilience. Why haven't we become an oppressed people? How is it that in times of destruction and crisis, we grow and strengthen?