Health, Illness and Healing

Does Judaism have anything to say about eating healthy and being healthy? Actually, Judaism has always been well ahead of the times in this area.

While we must recognize that every illness is a message from G‑d and take appropriate spiritual action, at the same time we may, and must, use medicines that have healing powers.

“It’s just not the same anymore without him . . .” She bows her head. I nod in agreement, but inside I’m singing.

For time immemorial, whenever Jews found themselves in difficult situations, whether individually or communally, they would open up the Book of Psalms and use King David’s ageless poetic praises and supplications to beseech G-d for mercy...

The Rebbe's encounter with a group of disabled Israeli war heroes

Are you hero or victim? The hero who never cries nor feels the fear, the panic, the regrets that are part and parcel of his condition? The victim who never encounters his bravery nor feels the transcendent power of rising above death, if only for a ...

I talk to Him rarely. I rarely even pray for my recovery. I take all this for granted.

The sole method we had for giving blood was a direct transfusion from one person to another.