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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. 

 

Latest Rituals

We mustn’t ever forget our tears

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Praise that comes after pain

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What balm will ease my suffering?

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A prayer for transformation and healing for someone close to the end of life

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A meditation when breathing is difficult

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Traditional blessings for mikveh immersion

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A ooem for Individuals seeking health care to manage mental illness

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Meditations to treat our bodies as sacred

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“Any time you are afraid, anxious, uncertain, all you need to do is reach out your hand”

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Blessing for one undergoing prostate surgery

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