Healing from Illness

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

“Grant me the strength to sustain my life, / As you commanded…”
A participatory D’var Torah for Parshat Beha’alotekha
“God of creation, / I come before You / to offer thanks for my scars”
Poem of gratitude on healing from illness with the support of a partner
“Blessings cannot be static; / Blessings need to be in motion”
“Binder of wounds, / Open me to / Unplanned wonder”
“Is it selfish of me to ask / That she not be in pain?”
“We invoke the energy of the universe and express our gratitude for our health and wellbeing”

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