Giving up is not peace — as Rabbi Landau teaches it
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau teaches that "I don't want it" can mean "I stopped believing I could have it." Rabbi Landau teaches that when hope hurts for long enough, desire goes quiet. That quiet is not the same as being at peace. Deferred hope, in the verse he quotes, makes the heart sick.
Source verses
תּוֹחֶלֶת מְמֻשָּׁכָה מַחֲלָה לֵב
Quoted from the captions of the teachings below.
The takeaway
Do not confuse giving up with being at peace.