[Avodah] The Gift of Illness

[Harry Maryles]

--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
The Wall Street Journal today (pg A19) quoted the following:
> Tony Snow in The Jewish World Review, 2005:

> The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some
> cancer patients recover; some don't. But the ordeal of facing your
> mortality and feeling your frailty sharpens your perspective about life.
> You appreciate little things more ferociously. You grasp the mystical
> power of love. You feel the gravitational pull of faith. And you realize
> you have received a unique gift -- a field of vision others don't have
> about the power of hope and the limits of fear; a firm set of convictions
> about what really matters and what does not. You also feel obliged to
> share these insights -- the most important of which is this: There are
> things far worse than illness -- for instance, soullessness.
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The only thought that comes to mind after reading Tony Snow's poignant words is that if someone will tell you that non Jews have wisdom - believe him!
 
HM

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