Not only did he accept his illness without question, he actually considered it a gift
Rabbi Meister, who became a baal teshuvah while in medical school, described in his first LifeLines story (Ticket to Eternity | Issue 550) how he developed a 20-year plan for finishing kol haTorah kulah and successfully implemented that plan, while building a beautiful family and working as a radiologist.
In his second story (New Lease on Life | Issue 558), he wrote, “From the time I became a baal teshuvah and resolved to learn kol haTorah kulah, my goal was to die a learned man. But from the time I discovered I had cancer, my goal was to die a good man, in the eyes of my wife and children.”
In the process of preparing his stories for print, Rabbi Meister emailed me numerous times, and I was continually amazed by his upbeat attitude and ironclad emunah. After hearing of his petirah, I went back and reviewed the emails I received from him (including updates he sent me in the years following the publication of his stories). I would like to share with you some snippets of what he sent me (very lightly edited).
Being a radiologist, Rabbi Meister knew a great deal about cancer. From that viewpoint, he had an interesting take on accepting the decree of stage four cancer:
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