Dr. Rachel Remen is a remarkable person with a remarkable story. Her grandfather was a wise and devoted elderly Rabbi… and he taught her (from her earliest days) to search for the meaning of life by…
- Studying the Scriptures,
- Asking questions,
- And, listening to powerful stories.
On the other hand, everybody else in her family was either a doctor or nurse (9 doctors and 3 nurses in the family)… and when she was 4 years old they were all asking her which medical school would she want to attend. They all expected her to grow up and become a physician.
She jokingly says now that she was the only “pre-med student” in her kindergarten class. In her young mind… growing up to be an adult and growing up to be a doctor were one and the same thing. But, deep inside she was in a quandary becau…