Some 45 years ago, in 1976, I saw an episode of a sitcom that I still remember today.  It was an episode in the seventh and final season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show entitled “Ted’s Change of Heart.”  Ted Baxter, the pompous news anchor played by Ted Knight, has a mild heart attack in the middle of delivering the evening news.  After a brief stay in the hospital, he is restored to full health, a rephuah shelaimah, as we would say.

But while he emerges from his cardiac incident healthy and whole, he is not the same person.  The trauma changed him.  He is filled with an acute sense of wonder and gratitude for blessings that he had never noticed before.