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Living with uncertainty - part one

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5772/2011

Here is a story that we Jews have been telling for thousands of years:

Once there was a man named Avram (later Avraham/Abraham), who lived in the region of ancient Mesopotamia. Avram became convinced that there was only one all-powerful God, maker of heaven and earth, and that this one invisible and un-nameable God was calling him to leave his home, move to a promised land he did not yet know, and share his faith with the people he would encounter along the way.

You’re familiar with that story, right?

Here is another story, that you’ve probably never heard:....