Misheberach with your own name

It’s easy to pray for the healing of others

when we feel concerned or scared or powerless,

to offer up our hopes that they be healed

in body and mind and spirit.

We speak their names with love

and wish for their wholeness.

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To pray for your own healing…

your name feels stuck in your throat

when the time comes.

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To ask for your own rifuah,

you must acknowledge and lift up

all those broken parts of yourself,

and claim them as your own,

It’s hard to ask for help;

harder still to count up your wounds,

the pain that plagues you,

the newly healed scars,

And – to quote Pesha Gertler –

lift them, one by one,

close to your heart

and say ‘holy holy.’

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Know that you are beloved

by those thinking of you.

They would pray for your healing

with enthusiasm –

have compassion upon yourself.

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In this sacred space

you have permission

to think of yourself,

to care for yourself,

to pray for yourself.

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May we all be given complete healing

of body and spirit,

for we are all

holy, holy.

-Grace Moskowitz