The Mercy of Sickness before Death https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/06/the-mercy-of-sickness-before-death/

June 20, 2014 | D.G. Myers
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I am dying. Why, then, at Sabbath prayer, do I feel compelled to thank the Creator of the Universe for my cancer?  

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