How will 2022 treat us?

Thinking ahead to the end of 2022, how will we assess whether it has been a good or bad year?

Shavuah tov - and happy 2022!

I’ve always been troubled by end-of-year round-ups, pronouncements as to whether it has been a good year or a bad year. What particularly troubled me is that the people doing the judging often do not lay out their assumptions: what criteria determine whether a year was good or bad?

Take 2021, for example. During the second ye…