Mary Fairchild: one reason healing may not occur is that it's simply God's time to take a believer home.
DAVID GREENSTEIN: Perhaps, in a gesture of atonement and recompense, our tradition imagines a rich life for Miriam in Heaven. The Zohar tells us that regularly the righteous women who were led by Miriam in her life come to Miriam in Heaven. "That day is called the Day of Celebration. The women, on the evenings of Sabbaths and festivals, all come to be with Miriam, and they come to know the striving to apprehend the Master of the Universe." (Zohar 3:163a)

