Kollel wife, teacher, and creator of CattleQuants— an AI-based business counting animals on ranches around the world
AS far back as third grade, I loved medicine — but not the idea of being a doctor. Shuddering at the thought of telling a patient terrible news, instead I dreamed of discovering miraculous cures. My classmates jokingly referred to me as the one most likely to discover a cure for cancer!
The summer before seminary I had the opportunity to work in a biomedical research lab run by a frum doctor. The work — feeding cell cultures, testing cells’ responses to stimuli, and using rats and mice to study kidney disease — was incredibly stimulating, but I was disturbed when two women in the lab told me their children were being raised by nannies.
“We only see our kids on weekends,” they shared.
The job was extraordinary, but my dreams began to change. My vision of a kollel home didn’t include an absentee mother.
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