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. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Tag Filter resources by Category Rosh Ḥodesh Adar (אַדָר) Alef & Bet | Addenda | After the Aliyot | During the Aliyot | Weekday Amidah | Asher Yatsar | Bedtime Shema | Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers | Tehilim Book 1 (Psalms 1–41) | Child care | Congregation & Community | Dreaming | the Dry Season (Spring & Summer) | Epidemics & Pandemics | Homes & Community Centers | Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets | 🌐 International Workers' Day (May 1st) | Mixed Dancing | Old Age | Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Social Justice, Peace, and Liberty | Theurgy | 🌐 Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31st) | Travel | Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah | Yotser Or Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range
A short prayer of gratitude in the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A poem-blessing for trailblazers of many kinds, to honor everyday courage and to inspire trust and self-compassion. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for a parent (or primary caregiver) on the vaccination of their children by Cantor Hinda Labovitz was first shared via their Facebook page on 5 November 2021, . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): We believe Jewish prayers and rituals can help to strengthen our mental well-being, resilience and recovery in the same way middot, or Jewish values, can promote them. Faith is an important part of healing for many, and Jewish thinkers and leaders historically have brought the two together. When someone is ill or recovering from illness or an accident, we often recite a mi sheberakh to wish them a refuah sheleimah, or a “full recovery.” We have expanded this prayer for those who are struggling with mental health with this Mi Sheberakh for Mental Health. –the Blue Dove Foundation . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Those Denied Abortion Care” was composed collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Facebook in response to the regressive health care policies of the State of Texas in the United States in 2021. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Repro Shabbat” was written collectively by the staff of the National Council of Jewish Women and disseminated on Twitter and Facebook 27 January 2022. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Blessings for Gender Transitioning” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and first published on Ritualwell in 2013. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for Transitions” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla. He writes that this prayer was written “for all adult transitions including gender as well as things like starting medication.” . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer of Healing for Mental Illness” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla for the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center and was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 91. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Asher Yatzar (The One Who Forms): a prayer of gratitude for our bodies as transgender, nonbinary, intersex people, and everybody else” was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla and adapted from the blessing known by its incipit “Asher Yatsar” or “the bathroom blessing” traditionally recited after excretion of waste. The blessing is also recited as part of the birkhot hashaḥar complex of blessings recited upon waking up and becoming active. Rabbi Kukla’s blessing was first published in Where Healing Resides (CCAR 2013), p. 32. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): 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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “O Mother of Medicine” is an original prayer of intention by Baruch Jean Thaler, for use before a healing journey with the aid of entheogenic, psychedelic medicine. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer of protection for those in the process of gender transitioning, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, inspired by the Tefilat haDerekh (Traveler’s Prayer). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): An ecstatic psalm envisioning the eventual victory of Humanity over Death itself – the ultimate Victory Day. Although the primary focus is on our ending of the process of biological death, it also touches on the Resurrection of those who have fallen, as well as the defeat of the ultimate Death – that of the Universe itself. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., death, ecstatic, Grief, Medicine, מזמור Mizmor, משיח Moshiaḥ, resurrection, technology, thanksgiving, transhumanism Contributor(s): A prayer for healing in Hebrew with English translation by the author. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer for commencing testosterone therapy. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer for the wherewithal to endure chemotherapy was first offered by Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami sometime before May 2024. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This “Prayer Before Seeking Healing in a Psychedelic Journey” by Zac Kamenetz was first published by the author to the Jewish Entheogenic Society group on Facebook, 1 December 2024. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer upon Hair Removal for Vaginoplasty” (תפילה על הסרת שער תחתוני כהכנה לניתוח שינוי מין) by the Em haBanim is the first of seven prayers offered in their סדר תפילות לניתוח שינוי מין (The Em haBanim’s Prayers for Vaginoplasty). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Intention for Immersion [before Vaginoplasty]” (כוונה לפני הטבילה) by the Em haBanim is the second of seven prayers offered in their סדר תפילות לניתוח שינוי מין (The Em haBanim’s Prayers for Vaginoplasty). . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): |
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