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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. 

 

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Bless those in need of healing

Smooth stones with words like Friends, Love, and Hope arranged on a tree stump.

“Still we find the light”

Sunrise over a green field with a blue sky and scattered clouds.

May all our people live together as brothers and sisters

Two girls smiling and holding an American flag in a park.

Facing the Angel of Death yesterday and today

Stack of matzah on a colorful cloth with a pink and blue pattern.
Believe in the future
Colorful handmade matzah cover with Hebrew letters and decorative symbols on yellow felt.

“you belonged before you boarded the bus this morning”

 

A group of people standing in a field, arms around each other, facing away.

I hope this virus passes

A cluster of delicate pink and purple hydrangea flowers in full bloom.
Smiling woman holding a shiny, metallic spinning top in her hands.

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