A Blessing for the Sudden Relief from Chronic Pain, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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Menachem Creditor

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3 August 2018 under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, thanksgiving, pain, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), Gratitude, North America, all bodies, מודים Modim

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	Holy One, Thank You for these tears of relief, for the shock of being able to move once again, for the strange sudden realization that my brain doesn’t have to fight the pain. Just for an instant, I feel so tired and so overwhelmed, so transfixed by the quiet in my body that I’m not sure what to do with myself.
	Thank You for the physical therapists and doctors and surgeons and office managers who maintain and tend to all of us, holding us when we feel weak, sharing Your Touch of Life with so many. I promise to not take for granted this body You’ve loaned me.
	Blessed are You, Healer, for imbuing Your Images with the capacity to heal.
	Amen.

Rabbi Menachem Creditor first shared this prayer in the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook, here.

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Menachem Creditor

Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and was the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. A frequent speaker in communities and campuses around the United States and Israel with over 1 million views of his online videos and essays, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. His 22 books and 6 albums of original music include the global anthem "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" and the anthologies "When We Turned Within" and "None Shall Make Them Afraid." He has been involved in the leadership of American Jewish World Service, AIPAC, the Rabbinical Assembly, and the One America Movement, an organization dedicated to bringing together Americans of different faiths and opinions. He and his wife Neshama Carlebach live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

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