I live in Colorado Springs, not in Florida or the Carolinas. We don't get hurricanes here. But the issue I will deal with, using some wisdom from my friend and colleague Rabbi Jack Riemer, who lives right in the middle of where Hurricane Matthew landed, are many:
How could this have happened so quickly and so cruelly?
How could our lives have changed from lightness to darkness without sufficient warning?
And, what do we do now?
I will talk about the role of religion-in this case Judaism, but all religions are included-and how religion has the wisdom to see us through these losses a
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