  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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 . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for collective and communal well-being with an emphasis on dismantling systems of oppression and repairing their harms. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This prayer, following the structure of the Mi Sheberakh supplications during the Torah service, is meant to call get refusers to account, by name, and make a statement that their behavior is evil and will not be tolerated. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A “mi sheberakh” blessing for children and the parents of children returning to school at the beginning of the new school year. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A mi sheberakh prayer by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for the parents of students returning to school from their summer break. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: We have a prayer for the State of Israel, its army, government etc. but we do not have a non-judgmental, non-aliyah focused prayer for the welfare of Diaspora Jewry. This prayer offers a remedy for this absence. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A Mi Sheberakh prayer for those affected by natural disasters. This prayer uses many standard liturgical phrases in a new context to stress that God, while full of great power, is not a God of destruction but one of peace and life. Quoting the famous vision of Elijah at Ḥorev, this prayer is for those who seek comfort and tranquility from their God. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: From resurgent neo-fascist movements to religious extremist attacks, hate crimes are on the rise all over the world right now. At times like this many people live in fear – fear of being attacked or maligned, physical, mental or emotional. Hatred is not new to the Jewish people, but traditionally it was considered “just the way it is.” As Americans, we should believe better. The midrash (Devarim Rabbah 5:10) says that hateful speech kills three – the speaker, the listener, and the subject. This Mi Sheberakh was written as a prayer for all those of every people and nation that are affected by hatred and bigotry. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the electorate to be recited together with the Prayer for Government on the Shabbat before an election (federal, state, or local). . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A mi sheberakh prayer by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried for the parents of students leaving school for their summer break. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A “mi sheberakh” prayer for U.S. war veterans on the shabbat preceding Veterans Day (November 11). . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The prayer for the welfare of IDF soldiers by Rabbi Shlomo Goren, with additional text as added by Dr. Alex Sinclair emphasizing our desire for soldiers to engage in righteous and ethical conduct in accord with the IDF code of conduct. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: We are grateful to Rabbi Joshua Boettinger and Rabbis for Human Rights–North America (RHR-NA) for sharing the following petitionary prayer, A Misheberakh for Victims of Slavery. Originally published by RHR-NA on their website in 2009, the prayer attends to the desperate need to eradicate all forms of slavery that persist today, especially in advance of the holiday celebrating our Z’man Cheruteinu, the season of our freedom, every Spring, every Pesaḥ. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “Mi she-Berakh Prayer for Agunot and Women who are Denied a Writ of Divorce (mesorvot get)” was written by Dr. Yael Levine in the summer of 2006 and first published in the journal De’ot in advance of Purim 2007. The Hebrew version of the prayer was subsequently reprinted in the monumental Sefer ha-Shabbat, edited by Yonadav Kaploun and issued by Yediot Aharonot in 2011 (p. 260). The English translation was first published in The Jerusalem Post 16 March 2016 (Comment & Features), p. 13. The Hebrew annotation of the sources appeared already in the initial article in De’ot, and was subsequently published, inter alia, in an article published on kipa.co.il on 13 March 2019. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel was composed by Rabbi Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog, edited by S.Y. Agnon, and first published in the newspaper Ha-Tsofeh on 20 September 1948. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The prayer for the government familiar to all Conservative movement congregations, as written by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg with an English translation by Rabbi Tim Bernard. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer on behalf of one’s congregation and the worldwide community of Israelites. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the government offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A “mi sheberakh” prayer on behalf of the persons attending the prayer and/or Torah reading service. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for those martyred in the First Crusade and Rhineland Massacres, and by extension, all subsequent pogroms up until and including the Holocaust. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of Jewish congregations worldwide. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The mi sheberakh read for the well-being of one’s own congregation. . . .   Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Trump administration family separation policy, redemption, abduction, imprisoning migrant and asylum seekers, מי שברך mi sheberakh, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Arabic translation, immigration policy, Psalms 142, Immigration policy of Donald Trump May the one who blessed our ancestors, Avraham, Yitzḥak, and Yaakov, Yoseph, Moshe, and Aharon, David and Shlomo, Ruth, Sarah, Rivka, Miriam, Devorah, Tamar, and Raḥel, bless and safeguard and preserve the captives… . . . |