Ask the rabbi. OPTIMIST OR PESSIMIST? Q. Are you an optimist? A. I am not sure. I looked up "Optimism" in my book, "Eighty Days and Eighty Nights: Wise Words for Everyday" (https://www.oztorah.com/2012/11/eighty-days-and-eighty-nights-wise-words-for-everyday/), to find the answer, but there wasn’t a chapter on the subject. So let me confront myself and discover what I am…