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 prayer for a Nurse’s Commencement ceremony at Beth Israel Hospital on 19 September 1951. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “A Prayer for the Ill” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 46, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): “Prayer for Dedication of Hospital Chapel” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 68, from where this prayer was transcribed. No contextual information was provided with the prayer, so we cannot say when the prayer was offered or even for which hospital chapel it was dedicated. If you know, please leave a comment or contact us. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A contemporary Jewish prayer for healng, used at congregation Tzedek Chicago. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A prayer-poem for healing by Trisha Arlin. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The transition ritual poems below are an effort to hear in the Torah the voices of the various parts of the trans self calling one another toward wholeness. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A paraliturgical reflection on the prayer following urination and defecation, Asher Yatsar, for a shame resilience practice. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Rabbi Menachem Creditor first shared this prayer in the Open Siddur Project discussion group on Facebook, here. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): I am a rabbi, and I serve an assisted living community: Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco. I was inspired by the loving care given to the members of this community, and wanted to acknowledge these workers. I, together with three residents, wrote a prayerbook for our services, Siddur Erev Shabbat (Kindle/Amazon Direct Publishing, 2020). This prayer, which is entirely my own composition, is included in that prayerbook, and we recite it at each Friday service. . . . 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): “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): “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): “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 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): |
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