A sharp mind can invent fear — as Rabbi Landau teaches it
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau teaches that A sharp mind can solve problems. Pointed the wrong way, Rabbi Landau teaches, it invents a thousand reasons to be afraid. More knowledge can mean more pain when every possibility becomes another reason not to move. Growth is not seeing no danger. It is seeing the danger and still believing there is a way forward.
Source verses
וְיוֹסִיף דַּעַת יוֹסִיף מַכְאוֹב
Quoted from the captions of the teachings below.
The takeaway
See the danger, and still move. More knowledge is not the same as more courage.