This is a blessing written by myself and my father, Moshe Razieli, in 2021. We wrote it foremost with my brother in mind. It is also informed by my experience of working with people who have experienced trauma, loss and disability.

“Blessing for Living with Chronic Illness,” by Rabbi Sandra Razieli and Moshe Razieli was written in 2021 and published for the first time here at the Open Siddur Project’s website.

“Blessing for Living with Chronic Illness, by Rabbi Sandra Razieli & Moshe Razieli” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Sandra Razieli

Sandra Razieli is a Cultural Anthropologist, Movement Educator (raziyoga.com) and rabbi (mauirabbi.com). She is also a co-founder of Las Brujas football club. Sandra served for over 15 years as Bar/Bat Mitzvah Program Director and Spiritual Leader at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, CA. She currently lives on Maui, where she facilitates creative ritual and educational experiences for the Jewish Congregation of Maui as well as visiting travelers.

Moshe Razieli

Moshe Razieli is a retired computer systems analyst living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Tel-Aviv in 1948 and became a platoon commander in the IDF at the age of 18. In his retirement he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children as well as playing his two favorite stringed instruments—the piano and the tennis racquet. He loves exploring Hebrew language and is proud that younger Israelis tell him that he speaks Hebrew like Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik.

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