It’s called that because people are afraid to say the word CANCER, as if saying it makes it somehow contagious. A young, close relative of mine who has not even begun to live his life, has a terrible form of cancer that is resistant to treatment, quite rare in young adults, and the treatment protocols for it are horrendous. If all it took to not get cancer (and this one came out of left field) was to be kind to your fellow Jew and to non-Jews as well, not be judgmental, show chessed, do mitzvos, give tzedaka, be tzniusdig, learn Torah, and so on, this is a young man who would NEVER be sick with even a head cold. He has ALL those wonderful Middos, but when Hashem Makes a Gezairah, it stands. R”L, Tzaddikim get cancer, and reshoim can go their entire lives in the best of physical (if not spiritual) health. It is what it is, and I hope after 120 years we are zochim to understand why this is so.
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