Choosing Resilience: Thoughts on the Current Tragedy

As an outsider who joined the Jewish people, it seems really strange to choose a moment when a bunch of Jews who had decided to rely on their military strength to fight for their freedom gave up and committed suicide as a symbol to motivate modern Zionists to fight for another attempt at Jewish sovereignty over this land. Regardless, it is a powerful story. The first thing I see in this story is that you always have a choice. You can die rather than fight. People like to say, we have to fight, and we have to win because we have no choice. But you always have a choice. You can fight, you can surrender, you can lay down and die.