Einstein and the Rabbi Excerpt #3

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Know Who You Are RECOGNIZING YOUR TRUE DIVINE POWER In April 2016 I noticed a tiny dot on my nose, a dot as small as a pinprick. It seemed completely insignificant. I ignored it, assuming it would soon disappear, but it just wouldn’t go away. On Friday morning, July 9, I went to the doctor to have that dot removed. It was supposed to be a totally routine procedure. But it turned out that the tiny spot was actually the tip of an iceberg, and beneath it ­there was an extensive infiltrative tumor. By the end of that day I was missing a lot of my nose. A lot. It all happened so quickly. And the cancer ­wasn’t on my arm or my leg: it was bull’s-­eye smack in the ­middle of my face. My nose was gone, and I’d need to get a new one ­really fast. The surgeon who removed the cancer told me I was g­ oing to need total nasal reconstruction. I d ­ idn’t understand what that meant or whom to go to for help. The ­whole ­thing was so crazy, so unexpected. And I always liked my nose! I thought I had a good nose. Okay, it was a Jewish nose. But my name is Naomi Nechama Levy, for God’s sake, and I’m a rabbi. Why s­ houldn’t I have a Jewish nose? It fit me. And just like that, poof, it was gone. And I missed it.

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