As We Are...

There is a saying in the Talmud: “We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

Right now, a lot of us are upset and angry and convinced with Crusader-like confidence in the holy righteousness of our beliefs. But are we seeing things as they are, or as we are?

Once upon a time, a man who had lost the Presidential race refused to concede that he had lost, going so far as to accuse the winner of fraud and a good deal of manipulation of the vote. In what was one of the closest elections in the history of our nation, the loser made it clear that he was not going to just roll over and give up.

Charles Hughes had gone to bed on Election Night believing that he was the new President of the United States. When he woke up, he wasn’t…