Posts tagged ‘surgery’

Family Caregivers

This is a prayer to be said on behalf of those family members and friends who have taken on the task of daily caregiving of another…

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For a Loved One’s Cancer Treatment

Another prayer in a series of prayers that follow the cancer journey. These prayers appear in my book Jewish Prayers of Hope and Healing. Options for adapting this prayer…

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Praise for Healing

This is a prayer to be said after recovery from illness. Although I’ve written several specific prayers — such as “Cancer Remission” and “Upon Recovery from…

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My Illness, My Children

Here’s a prayer to be said by an ill parent worried about how witnessing the disease will impact his or her children. A challenge in writing…

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Inviting Healing

G-d’s healing power surrounds us. Re’fuat haguf. Healing of the body. Re’fuat hanefesh. Healing of the spirit. This is a meditation on inviting healing into our…

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On Recurrent Pain

I recently spent several days in hospital dealing with a kidney stone. In the days before, during and after, I had times of dull pain, times…

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For a Child’s Surgery

This revision of “For My Child’s Surgery” appears in the new book, Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides published by the CCAR Press. I am grateful to…

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