Sarah Yehudit Schneider We are about to observe our one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-forty-first (1,941st) Tisha b’Av fast. That amounts to a lot of hope…and a lot of disappointment. Although mashiach1 could come in any moment, the Talmud declares that Tisha B’Av is the day most suited to his birth.2 Each year our hopes rise, and each year they have been dashed. The natural tendency, with such a precedent of disappointment, is to grow cynical and stop hoping. Sadly, many have d
