This Yom Kippur, remember your nemesis is hubris

We can be killed in an instant by a random falling tree, and yet we are hubristic

Well-pleased with oneself (Dan Perry photo)

I am intrigued by the list of sins Jews own up to in their prayers on Yom Kippur. It is eye-opening to consider that all have in the course of a year committed many, probably most and perhaps even every one of those transgressions.

Certainly we have slandered and scoffed. Robbery and abomination are iffier but p…