Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic The German sociologist’s famous treatise on capitalism takes on new meaning amid a job-destroying pandemic.

Consolation leads you to do everything spontaneously, as if we were children. But let’s be careful. We must distinguish well between the consolation that comes from God and false consolations.

The consolation prize always felt more wondrous than the trophy from a real win. You had failed, and yet the world treated you with pleasure anyway.

Perhaps this is the meaning of the call for consolation even amidst our concurrent exile. About the Author Baruch Weiss is a psychotherapy intern, a Rabbi, and a journalist.

Sharing the Rites of Consolation When We’re Apart Behind the statistics are mourners unable to find comfort by coming together. Edvard Munch, ‘Consolation’ (1907).