When someone you love is ill and you cannot fix it, the tradition hands you the Psalms.
Everything below is drawn from the classical Jewish sources and cited to its origin.
Reflections on Psalms for Healing
- Are the Psalms Jewish? Reclaiming Tehillim as the Prayerbook of Israel
- How Hebrew Poetry Works in the Psalms: Parallelism, Imagery, and Sound
- How to Actually Live With the Psalms: Turning Tehillim Into a Daily Practice
- How to Write Your Own Psalm: Learning from the Form of Tehillim
- Praying Tehillim for Someone Who Is Ill: The Psalms, the Name, and the Mi Sheberach
- Psalm 121: A Song of Ascents on the God Who Does Not Sleep
- Psalms for Strength and Courage in Hard Times
- Psalms for a Broken Heart: Where God Is Said to Draw Near
- Psalms for a Jewish Wedding and Blessing a New Home
- Psalms for a Miracle: Praying When You Need the Impossible
- Psalms for the Weary: Rest for Body and Soul
- Psalms of Protection for Children and Family
- Psalms of Repentance: Asking for Forgiveness and Mercy
- The Alphabet Psalms: Why Some Tehillim Are Written A to Z
- The Psalm of the Day: Why Each Weekday Has Its Own Tehillah
- The Psalms of Mourning: Tehillim for Loss and Remembrance
- Verses From Tehillim to Carry With You: Lines That Hold When Words Run Out
- What Is Tehillim? The Hebrew Name and Heart of the Psalms
- Which Psalms to Say for Healing: A Tehillim Guide for Body and Soul
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