The Moshiach Tsunami

This is an excerpt from an address by R. Adin Steinsaltz on the occasion of the Rebbe's  centennial in 2002. It mentions tsunami and is dated  March 11.  March 11, 2011 is, of course,  when a devastating tsunami hit Japan.

The full article is here.

"...When we speak about the coming of Moshiach, we speak about a mega-event, a major phenomenon that changes everything. We may not be fully prepared and we don't know the how, what, or when of this event, but we are talking about major changes. One of the consequences of this statement is that, if we are expecting things to change in a major way, we will have to make major changes, too. Next to the truly momentous changes we are anticipating, all of our trivial arguments shrink into trifles; our disputes are comic, not just painful. Many of the things that people fight about are the sheerest, shallowest nonsense, especially if we compare these quarrels to the establishment of an entirely different order. ... Who will remember all these foolish people who were fighting about such things? When the tsunami is about to envelop the world...everything will be moved..."