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Category: Illness
What Does the Month of Iyar Have to Do with Healing?
Iyar and healing refer not just to a named ailment, but overall wellness and health both internally and externally.
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
May 14, 2023
Health
Illness
Fasting While Ill
It is considered forbidden to fast on fast days if injurious to one’s health, for the sake of performing positive commandments.
Rabbi Carl Astor
,
The Observant Life (Book)
May 10, 2023
Fasting on Tisha B'av
Health
Jewish Viewpoints on Serious Illness
We give thanks to God every day for the gift of life, but recognize that we are mortal and that illness and death will come.
Rabbi Carl Astor
,
The Observant Life (Book)
May 10, 2023
Health
Illness
Jewish Customs Showing Care for People who are Ill
Visiting the sick is counted as one of the mitzvot that is rewarded both in this world and also in the World to Come.
Rabbi Carl Astor
,
The Observant Life (Book)
May 10, 2023
Health
Illness
Learning about Mental Illness from Ruth
Risa Sugarman teaches that comparing Ruth's strengths to owning our own positive attributes as primary instead of our mental illness.
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
May 20, 2022
Illness
Shavuot
The Four Questions and Living with Mental Illness
We have the opportunity to help teens create long-lasting positive connections to the very traditions they are appropriately questioning.
Risa Finkelstein Sugarman
March 31, 2022
Health
Illness