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Living with uncertainty - part four

Yom Kippur 5772/2011

On March 11th of this year, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake followed by a terrifying tsunami. Imagine: One day you are going about your life, with a reasonable sense of certainty about what is happening and what will be happening… and the next day, everything you hold dear is literally swept away.

Everything about life is uncertain, except the certainty of change. Every one of us will be hit by a tsunami or a hurricane or some equally powerful blast in our lifetime. It’s coming – for some of you, it may have already hit....