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Foreword | ix | |
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Introduction | xvii | |
I. | On Jewish Healing | 1 |
The Jewish Healing Tradition in Historical Perspective | 3 | |
The Jewish Way of Healing | 16 | |
Reflections on "Healing" in Contemporary Liberal Judaism | 23 | |
A Perspective on Jewish Healing | 37 | |
Can Prayer Heal? A View From Tradition | 42 | |
Overcoming Our Pain: The Life Lessons of Dr. Bernie S. Siegel | 48 | |
Healing of Body; Healing of Spirit | 53 | |
Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 5b from The Outstretched Arm | 57 | |
II. | Personal Stories of Healing | 65 |
Illness is My Teacher | 67 | |
Our Power to Touch and Heal | 76 | |
How I Spent My Summer Vacation | 80 | |
Passage to Wholeness | 87 | |
The Fabric of Life | 92 | |
III. | Traditional Healing Texts | 95 |
Praying for Ourselves-Genesis 21; B'reishit Rabbah 53:14 | 97 | |
Choose Life-Deuteronomy 30:12-15, 19 | 98 | |
Offering Thanks for Recovery-Isaiah 38:9-20 | 99 | |
Hope in God-Isaiah 40:31 | 101 | |
Healing through Music-I Samuel 16 | 102 | |
God and Prayer Are Always with Us in Our Healing-Midrash, Psalm 4:9 | 103 | |
Trust in God-Psalm 20 | 104 | |
Adonai is My Light-Psalm 27 | 105 | |
Do Not Forsake Me-Psalm 38 | 107 | |
In My Distress-Psalm 86 | 109 | |
Do Not Hide Your Face-Psalm 102 | 111 | |
My Help Comes from God-Psalm 121 | 115 | |
Suffering and Joy-Mishnah Avot 1:7 | 116 | |
How Can We Tell When Prayer Works? - Babylonian Talmud, B'rachot 34b | 117 | |
IV. | Healing Prayers, Poems, and Meditations | 119 |
As the darkness lifts ... | 121 | |
Hope | 122 | |
Courage | 124 | |
God, I need to know ... | 125 | |
Five: A Lullaby for Courage | 126 | |
A Prayer for Prayer | 127 | |
Be Strong and of Good Courage! | 129 | |
Bless the Healer | 130 | |
A Prayer for Strength | 131 | |
As we make our way ... | 132 | |
Open Us to Healing | 133 | |
Healing | 134 | |
I am hurting, God ... | 135 | |
I ask God for health ... | 136 | |
Nine: For Complete Healing | 137 | |
Psalm 28: For the Caregivers | 138 | |
On Recovery | 139 | |
Meditation | 140 | |
The world is new to us ... | 141 | |
Why does it take a traumatic event ...? | 142 | |
God, often I think ... | 143 | |
Hineini | 144 | |
Ten: For Healing | 146 | |
Mi Sheberach for Shalom Bayit | 147 | |
On the Loss of a Child | 148 | |
Upon Terminating a Pregnancy | 149 | |
Prayer after a Miscarriage | 150 | |
Healing after a Miscarriage | 151 | |
Divorce is a true passage ... | 152 | |
A Song for Comfort before Surgery | 153 | |
HIV Positive and AIDS | 154 | |
A Special Prayer in Time of Illness | 155 | |
My Prayer | 156 | |
A Patient's Prayer | 157 | |
The Dew of Life | 158 | |
A Yizkor Meditation in Memory of a Parent Who Was Hurtful | 160 | |
Soften my hardened heart ... | 161 | |
Blessings and Prayers from When the Body Hurts, the Soul Still Longs to Sing | 162 | |
Portal to Light | 165 | |
V. | Rituals of Healing | 167 |
Mastectomy: Twelve Months after Surgery--A Bathing Ritual for the End of Mourning | 169 | |
Mikvah Ceremony for Laura | 174 | |
A Ritual of Loss | 182 | |
Healing Ritual for Abused Women | 193 | |
Laying T'fillin: A Ritual of Emotional Healing for Men | 196 | |
Mikveh and Embodiment: Healing the Spirit after a Medical Scare | 203 | |
Ready for Redemption: A Mikveh Experience of Personal Healing | 205 | |
VI. | Holidays and Healing | 209 |
A Healing Resource for the Jewish High Holiday Season: Psalm 27 | 211 | |
One Hundred Sixty-Five: In the Sukkah | 214 | |
Blessing and Extending the Light: A Ritual of Healing for the Eight Nights of Hanukkah | 215 | |
The Masks of Purim | 220 | |
Haggadah for Healing | 222 | |
VII. | Resources | 229 |
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