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…
Read articleFor 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…
Read articlePraise 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…
Read articleMy 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…
Read articleInviting 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…
Read articleOn 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…
Read articleFor 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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