A problem is only depressing if we think we’re stuck with it
The Covid vaccine was developed with unprecedented speed. Less than a year after the first confirmed cases of the virus, the FDA approved emergency use of the vaccine.
It was a clear case of necessity being the mother of invention. Many of the greatest innovations in medicine and technology have come as the fruits of pandemic or war. Nothing awakens the amazing ingenuity of the human mind like the need to solve an urgent problem.
Urgent physical problems are not so difficult to spot. What most people fail to see — or more often, choose not to see — are our spiritual problems.
In Tachanun, we recite the words of Dovid Hamelech: “Grant me favor, Hashem, for I am weak. Heal me, Hashem, for my bones shudder.” This isn’t just a metaphor. Spiritual weakness and spiritual illness are actual things. They’re no less real than physical ailments, and no less dangerous.
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