🕯️ Learning Torah is doing something. Davening with kavana is doing something. Giving tzedakah is d

Rabbi Silber offers chizuk for moments when Klal Yisrael feels covered by a black cloud. He reminds listeners that learning Torah, davening with kavana, giving tzedakah, and doing chesed are all real ways to help. The message is one of active hope: do not surrender to despair, because the darkness will give way to light.

• Learning Torah is a real contribution to Klal Yisrael.
• Davening with kavana, tzedakah, and chesed are powerful forms of action.
• Rebbe Akiva’s message is not to lose ourselves to despair.
• Even a black cloud over Klal Yisrael will eventually give way to spiritual sunshine.