{"id":99088,"date":"2022-11-20T05:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99088"},"modified":"2022-11-20T05:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:31:48","slug":"healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe said: If you hearken diligently to the voice of Hashem, your G-d, and do what is virtuous in His eyes, listen to His commandments and observe all His decrees, then all the illnesses that I placed in Egypt, I will not bring upon you, for I am Hashem, your Healer\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Shemot<\/em> 15:26)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou shall serve Hashem, your G-d, and He shall bless your bread and your water, and I shall remove illness from among you\u201d <\/em><\/strong>^(ibid.<\/em> 23:25)<\/p>\n

\u201cHeal me, Hashem, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved; for You are my praise\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Yirmeyahu <\/em>17:14)<\/p>\n

>Hashem is the Healer of all creatures, as we are told, \u201cFor I am Hashem, your Healer,\u201d \u201cHeal me, Hashem, and I will be healed,\u201d \u201cReturn, O wayward sons, and I will heal your waywardness.\u201d Hashem\u2019s healing is not like that of flesh and blood. A human doctor cuts with a scalpel and heals with a bandage, whereas Hashem strikes and heals with the same tool (Mechilta<\/em>, Beshalach<\/em>, Parashah<\/em> 5).<\/p>\n

The pasuk says (Bamidbar<\/em> 21:8), \u201cHashem said to Moshe: Make for yourself a fiery serpent.\u201d Does a serpent give or take life? But whenever Bnei Yisrael would look at the serpent, they would have faith in the One Who commanded Moshe to form it. And Hashem would heal them (Mechilta<\/em>, Beshalach<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The Gemara relates (Eiruvin<\/em> 54a), in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: One whose head hurts should involve himself in Torah, as the pasuk says, \u201cFor they are an adornment of grace for your head.\u201d One whose throat hurts should involve himself in Torah, as the pasuk continues, \u201cAnd a chain for your neck.\u201d One whose innards hurt should involve himself in Torah, as the pesukim continue, \u201cIt will be health to your navel.\u201d One whose bones hurt should involve himself in Torah, as the pasuk continues, \u201c\u2026 marrow to your bones.\u201d One whose entire body hurts should involve himself in Torah, as the pasuk ends, \u201c\u2026 healing for all its flesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medicine can be painful and bitter. But Hashem\u2019s healing is pleasant and pain-free (Rabbeinu Bachya<\/em>, Shemot<\/em> 21:19).<\/p>\n

The Maharal (Chiddushei Aggadot<\/em>, Nedarim<\/em> 41a) offers the following analogy: The tree loses all its leaves in the wintertime. It itself is withered by frost. With the spring, it becomes rejuvenated. Its roots provide life once again, and the tree is revived. So is a sick person. He can never regain his former health unless he completely eradicates the sin which caused his illness in the first place. Without doing this, his body can never return to its original state, as it is damaged by sin. This is what is meant by the Sages\u2019 words that a person is not healed unless his sins were forgiven.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe said: If you hearken diligently to the voice of Hashem, your G-d, and do what is virtuous in His eyes, listen to His commandments and observe all His decrees, then all the illnesses that I placed in Egypt, I will not bring upon you, for I am Hashem, your Healer\u201d (Shemot 15:26) \u201cYou shall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":58833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}