You can suffer twice — as Rabbi Landau teaches it

By Rabbi Shalom Landau.

Rabbi Landau teaches that worry plays the feared thing out in the imagination, and then the thing may happen anyway. Rabbi Landau teaches that replaying the conversation and trying to control every ending does not move the wall. You can choose your words and give your best. You cannot force the outcome. Faith, as he uses the verse, is not doing nothing. It is doing your part without demanding that the world follow your script.