Blessing for Caregivers, by Rabbi Me’irah Iliinsky
Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=60405
open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2025-03-22
Last Updated: 2025-03-24
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers for caregivers, prayers of health care workers
Excerpt: 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. . . .
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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.
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For Caregivers
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Know that your hands are the manifestation of love
Your pace is the embodiment of patience
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Your voice speaks gentleness
Your being is selflessness
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May you be kept from every harm and sickness
May you experience joy in your kindness
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May your heart be soothed by loving eyes gazing toward you
May your soul be comforted in times of loss
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And may you know that you are a blessing
Bringing holiness into this world.
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Contributor: Me'irah Iliinsky
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Name: Me'irah Iliinsky
Bio: Rabbi Me'irah Iliinsky was ordained at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2007, after a career as a clinical social worker. She is also an artist, with a mission to give visual access to sacred texts. Her areas of expertise are working with elders, and Jewish approaches to end of life. She teaches parashat ha-shavua at the JCC in San Francisco, and is the community rabbi at Rhoda Goldman plaza, also in San Francisco.
Website: https://versesilluminated.com
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/meirah-iliinsky
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