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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, the health and well-being of others by or for caregivers.

If you have composed a prayer for overcoming illness, for well-being, or for the success of caregivers, healers, and physicians, please share it here.

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Ritual for Judging Bad Dreams for Good

If one has had a terribly disturbing and potentially auspicious dream, this ritual recorded in the Talmud Bavli (Berakhot 55b) provides a remedy in the form of a means by which the dream itself is judged positively by a small court of one’s peers.

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anxiety, dreams, judgement, sleep

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady, Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown

אסו ית ארסינואי | Two healing prayers for Arsinoë’s recovery (Amulets 80.AM.55.1 & 80.AM.55.2, J. Paul Getty Museum)

Healing prayers written on a pair of amulets for the recovery of a woman named Arsinoë

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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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3rd century C.E., 41st century A.M., angelology, Angels, Angels of Healing, Aramaic, entering magical territory, קמעות ḳame'ot, Late Antiquity

Contributor(s):

Roy Kotansky (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה שערי דמעות | Tkhine of the Gate of Tears

The “Tkhine of the Gate of Tears” by an unknown author presented here derives from the Vilna, 1848 edition. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. If you can scan an image of the page from the edition this was copied from, please share it with us.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving, Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Refoyl Finkl (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אײן אנשפראכע געגען עין הרע | An Incantation against the Ayin haRa (1896)

This tkhine offers a formula for providing relief to a very ill person, and as such, should only be used as a supplement to recommendations provided by an expert physician or nurse. The source of the tkhine is Tkhine of a Highly Respected Woman, Budapest, 1896; and transcribed from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992.

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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy

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danger, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, entering magical territory, Healing, historiola, incantation, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, עין הרע predatory gaze (ill will/evil eye), shamanic praxis

Contributor(s):

Unknown, Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

God’s Love, a prayer for divine mercy (CCAR 1923)

“God‘s Love” is the twelfth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 44-46.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, Compassion, divine mercy, English vernacular prayer, Forgiveness, חסד Ḥesed, self-forgiveness, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Out of the Depth, a prayer from a state of depression (CCAR 1923)

“Out of the Depth” is the eleventh prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 41-43.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, English vernacular prayer, Forgiveness, self-forgiveness, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

God Our Refuge, a prayer in overwhelming circumstances (CCAR 1923)

“God Our Refuge” is the tenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 38-40.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, protection, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

God is Near, a prayer against alienation (CCAR 1923)

“God is Near” is the fifteenth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 53-56.

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Yom Kippur, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, Aseret Yemei Tshuvah, depression, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Suffering (CCAR 1923)

“Suffering” is the thirty-fifth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 118-120.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Distress, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Holy Places (CCAR 1923)

“Holy Places” is the thirty-sixth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 121-123.

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Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Homes & Community Centers, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., dedications and consecrations, English vernacular prayer, synagogue consecration, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Accepting the Burden, a meditation on suffering (CCAR 1923)

“Accepting the Burden” is the forty-third prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 143-145.

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Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, interconnectedness, Stoicism, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

God Our Eternal Home (CCAR 1923)

“God Our Eternal Home” is the forty-fourth prayer found in ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923), pp. 146-148.

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Homes & Community Centers, Well-being, health, and caregiving

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., alienation, עבודה זרה avodah zarah, בצלם אלהים btselem Elohim, English vernacular prayer, interconnectedness, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

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