<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><P>--- On <B>Tue, 7/15/08, Micha Berger <I><micha@aishdas.org></I></B> wrote:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><PRE>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.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>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!</P>
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