He saved her life — now her mission is to save his legacy. Nikki Goldstein doesn’t remember the first time she met Rabbi Eli Schlanger in September 2022. She was comatose in a Sydney, Australia, ICU, battling pneumonia and failing lungs. Doctors didn’t think the 57-year-old would live to see the next day.
Moments after her husband and daughter lifted their bowed heads resting over wires on her hospital bed, they caught a glimpse of a whirling dervish darting past the room wearing a yarmulke.
Though Goldstein was a secular Jew who never went to synagogue, her desperate husband Rowan asked the rabbi to give his dying wife a blessing.
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