Healing from Illness

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While there are many traditional Jewish prayers for healing, the feminist movement empowered first women and then men and women to create many more prayers and ceremonies which spoke to the specific situations in which they found themselves. The complexity of modern medicine has added to this need for prayers for medical tests, prayers before surgery, prayers after chemotherapy and for each chemo session, etc. In addition, several writers on Ritualwell have created ceremonies to celebrate an important anniversary in relationship to their disease. 

 

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“Grant, I pray, that my loved one will soon be matched with a donor and thus receive the healing gift of a new kidney.”
This beautiful floral mikveh ceremony is ideal for anyone who is not able to immerse in water.
A complete healing circle ritual including an introduction, poetry, prayers and reflections.
“I anchor myself to the beauty of the day and to love / that is the bridge between our fragile lives and eternity.”
“Dayenu. We sing now for as long as we can.”
A powerful ritual to mark the completion of treatment.
A Poem for the Removal of Uterine Fibroids
“After the pain settles, and swear words stop, /I am left with healing of my body. / But healing of body takes time…”
A reminder of our covenant with the Source of Life.
“I saw, in our decaf, the plea for rain / we ask on behalf of the god of our ancestors”

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