
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Baruch Jean Thaler (translation)
Shared on כ״ז בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Theurgy
Tags: Healing, danger, shamanic praxis, predatory gaze, incantation, עין הרע evil eye, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
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. . . .

Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Shared on י״ח בטבת ה׳תשע״ב (2012-01-13) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags: Ancestors, Artists, Healing, inspiration, Parashat Vayigash, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English poetry, prayers in the name of ancestors, Prayers as poems
[In Parshat Vayigash] we read of the members of Jacob’s family who went down to Egypt. There were 53 grandsons listed, but only a single granddaughter – Seraḥ, the daughter of Asher. The commentators wonder, what was so exceptional about this girl that her name was recorded? The Midrash spills forth with stories portraying an image of a unique and endearing Biblical heroine. Seraḥ stands as a trusted, beloved sage of the people. She possessed an uncommon gift of healing through poetry and music. Somewhat as Orpheus is to Greek myth, so is Seraḥ to the Biblical myth – the archetypal poet and bard. . . .
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