“You know,” I tell them, “what’s important now is just being here.”

When there is “nothing left to be done” for someone, usually the greatest thing you can do is simply to be there with him

Even when someone has only a short time to live, life — both in quantity and quality — is a halachic imperative

Why are people so anxious to find out when someone will die?

She wants him to be the same person he always was, but all he wants to do is daven and learn all day

Everyone in the room laughed. It was a good line. Even though Meir himself was on his deathbed

Almost everyone wants a rabbi to visit at the end of life. There is a sense that it is a sacred time