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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 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. 

Excerpt from Mid-Life Covenant: Healing Ritual after Hysterectomy

An excerpt from a longer ceremony describing the author's ritual planting of her womb, celebration with friends, and rejoining her husband and the community. [more]

Found In: Infertility, Healing from Illness

Tags: hysterectomy

A Mishebeirach for those dealing with HIV/AIDS

A special mishebeirach (prayer for healing) offered on World AIDS Day for those suffering with HIV/AIDS [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: mi sheberakh

Jewish Prayer for Persisting: Moving Beyond Misheberakh

Misheberakh for an individual who is chronically ill [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: mi sheberakh

Mikveh

Discovering healing in the waters of the mikveh and in a birthday ritual among a circle of women [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: mikveh

Communal Misheberach for Healing

An original prayer in both feminine and masculine forms [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: mi sheberakh

An Intimate Name Change Ceremony For Healing

A ceremony for all those who need light in their lives, whether they battle depression or cancer [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: mi sheberakh

Mi Shebeirach

A moving song that has become the hallmark the Jewish healing movement [more]

Found In: Healing from Illness

Tags: Debbie Friedman, mi sheberakh

Blessing to Heal Infertility

Personal blessing that God will hear our prayers to allow us to perform mitzvot. [more]

Found In: Infertility, Healing from Illness