Instead of addressing a topic from the Bible, Talmud or Hasidism, Professor Wiesel talks about himself and his health. Based on his quintuple bypass surgery and his recently published sixtieth book, Open Heart, Professor Wiesel speaks about his week in Lenox Hill Hospital, one of the longest in his life, filled with pain, anguish, miracle and meaning. In the hospital, he remembers as a child hearing the prayer in the synagogue on the High Holidays, “Oh L-rd, do not throw me away when I grow old” and how it was the only verse that reduced the women to weep as if from a broken heart. Professor Wiesel thinks about meeting his father again: “the most meaningful event during that week was my father.” Asked to count down from ten before the surgery, he asks for a minute to recite the shema, just in case he does not survive the surgery. Upon waking up and realizing that he was still living, his first feeling was of gratitude. Then, as part of a cheshbon hanefesh, accounting of the soul, he asked himself whether he had performed his duty as a survivor, had he transmitted all that he could. In deciding to write about his experience in hospital, Professor Wiesel hopes it will help others. He reviews his life as a teacher and what remains for him to do as a teacher, student and writer. He also talks of the support he received at the hospital from his son and grandson, who continue to endow his life with meaning and hereafter.