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.Â
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Ritual for acknowledging grief responses to coronavirus
Looking forward to a safe return to camp
Thank you flyer for U.S. postal workers during pandemic
“I never understood / why you couldn’t just / let my people go”
“I used to whisper evening prayers / Now I recite statistics”
“I’m calling her daily, even / Though it took a pandemic”
“I am sorry / you cannot play / with your friends”
“I’m OK during the day, but at night I get scared”
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