Jewish Action Fall 5763/2002 Vol. 63 No. 1 FEATURES Talking About Breast Cancer Renée Rosenfeld Is Yeshivah Education Accomplishing What It Should? (Part 11) Chaim Eisen Orthodoxy’s Finest Hour: Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust David Kranzler Haftarah: Familiar Practices For Unfamiliar Reasons Samuel N. Hoenig A Husband’s Promises Jerry Lob ISRAEL […]
Despite the prevailing opinion that young women don’t get breast cancer, the reality is that they can and they do. In fact, one in every 258 women between the ages of 30 and 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer within the next 10 years. Following are some additional startling facts about breast cancer in young women:
I remember thinking:
These are the intermediate days.
Spring.
…. The stroke that afflicted me wrought a spiritual metamorphosis in my whole Weltanschauung…when a person becomes afflicted by a stroke…a minute looseness takes effect in the well-integrated pattern and harmonious blend of soul and body. Consequently, the afflicted person is able to perceive the biological sensation of being sustained and carried by the soul within him….
The ba’alei musar tell us that perfection requires that one possess a combination of chesed (kindness) and gevurah (strength) which is tempered by emet (truth). My grandfather, Rav Ahron Soloveichik, exemplified all three.
I will remember that I am your husband and that I love you.
I will be kind to you. I will keep in mind all the stories about the incredible gentleness our gedolim, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, and Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky, zt”l, had toward their wives. And they will be my teachers in gentleness.
Misconception: Rebbi Yitzchak, whom Rashi–the commentator par excellence–cites in his commentary on the first verse of the Bible, is Rashi’s father.
It was well before sunrise when he pulled his car into the darkened parking lot. Stepping out onto the wet pavement, he paused to reflect on the events of the preceding evening that had brought him to this moment.
My rabbinic career began with a mission–to help individual neshamot (souls) in their relationship with God. When I became a physician, it was to cure the ills of the body. As a psychiatrist, I dealt with the mind. Finally, as a specialist in alcoholism and drugs, I dealt with the spirit.
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.…A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted….And also that it is the gift of God that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor” (Eccles. 3; trans. by The Soncino Talmud, Davka Corp.).