“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired
by the right of inheritance or purchased by gold.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the Talmud one rabbi asked his colleague when the latter
was ailing, “Is your suffering meaningful to you?”
I do not know anyone who wished on themselves
sickness. Yet, if illness comes, it ought to
come with a great gift of learning something so powerful it could only be
taught from our suffering. It should change us.
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