Jul 26, 2026 · 6 min · 4 segments
A heart attack. An intensive care ward. And a widow's cry that never really faded. Rabbi Shlomo Levin reflects on the night that changed his life 25years ago, and what it means to live in a universe…
Shlomo LevinHost
"You can't argue with genes." So my life changed forever, as it does for all those whose lives have been touched by the finger of mortality.
And my comfortable hotel bed that night was exchanged for one in an intensive care unit.
Before the curtain had been drawn around my bed, I had glimpsed a patient on my right, a young man seemingly in his late forties, sleeping fitfully.
I was awakened by a flurry of running feet and urgent activity, followed eventually by an ominous silence.
"Ze lo fair, ze lo fair!" "It's not fair, it's not fair!" wailed his wife, over and over and over and over again.
"You can't argue with genes." So my life changed forever, as it does for all those whose lives have been touched by the finger of mortality.
And my comfortable hotel bed that night was exchanged for one in an intensive care unit.
Before the curtain had been drawn around my bed, I had glimpsed a patient on my right, a young man seemingly in his late forties, sleeping fitfully.
I was awakened by a flurry of running feet and urgent activity, followed eventually by an ominous silence.
"Ze lo fair, ze lo fair!" "It's not fair, it's not fair!" wailed his wife, over and over and over and over again.
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