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Blessing (Brakha) for Using Medical Devices

This new blessing for medical devices, such as insulin pumps and feeding tubes, and focuses on the mitzvah of shmirat haguf, taking care of one’s body.

blessings, chronic illness, diabetes, holiness, insulin pump, medical devices

A person wearing jeans with an insulin pump tucked into a pocket, connected to a charger with braided strings.

From Door to Door: A Yom Kippur Prayer for the Chronically Ill

“there’s a message in my muscles but the pain is too loud for me to hear”

chronic illness, teshuvah

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