I gave a bit of a facetious title to one of the themes of my several talks on Yom Kippur, “Stop hoping, stop praying, stop thinking.” I have been digging into each of these themes a bit more during the past week or so since the end of the Days of Awe, and I would like to share some of that thinking with you. Sukkot is the time where we focus on happiness, authentic happiness. “Osher” in Hebrew, “eudomania” in Greek. The terms suggest spiritual wellbeing and contentedness, no