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2006-02-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hospital says Ariel Sharon's life is in danger

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Posted by Fred 2006-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What are the appropriate prayers TW/LH et. al.?

Posted by 6 2006-02-12 12:46|| 2006-02-12 12:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, he's not dead yet, so the Mourner's Kaddish (blessing) isn't appropriate, and he isn't likely to return to his full health and power. Truth to tell, I don't think he would enjoy the kind of best-hope partial recovery that's possible at this point, and I don't see beating on God's door with prayers for the impossible. Besides, Sharon was an old-style nonreligious Zionist, by all accounts. So how about, "Behold, He that guardeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep," and hope that the People he fought his whole life to protect will stay safe, while this true Lion of Israel goes peacefully and without pain.

An interesting thought: I saw the one-man show Golda's Balcony last week, with Valerie Harper, and in it she referred to "the Third Temple." The first two were made of stone, and destroyed by the enemies of Israel, she says, but the Third Temple is made up of the Jews of Israel. "We will not allow the destruction of the Third Temple," she says, near the end, after describing how Ariel Sharon disobeyed orders and broke the back of the Egyptial attack during the Yom Kippur War. May he find, after death, that the God he didn't believe in sends him straight to the Paradise he didn't worry about, where he can finally sit in peace in a garden breeding sheep (or was it cattle?).

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-12 16:41|| 2006-02-12 16:41|| Front Page Top

#3 This is taken from the http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ site. The transliteration includes some words with two alternatives; the first is for men, the second for women. Incidentally, Mi Sheberakh always uses the mother's Hebrew name. It is recited at the synagogue during the Torah service on the morning of Shabbat.

The prayer in English translation:

May the One who blessed our ancestors —
Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah —
bless and heal the one who is ill:
________________ son/daughter of ________________ .

May the Holy Blessed One
overflow with compassion upon him/her,
to restore him/her,
to heal him/her,
to strengthen him/her,
to enliven him/her.

The One will send him/her, speedily,
a complete healing —
healing of the soul and healing of the body —
along with all the ill,
among the people of Israel and all humankind,
soon,
speedily,
without delay,
and let us all say: Amen!

The prayer in Hebrew transliteration

Mi Sheberakh
Avoteinu: Avraham, Yitzhak, v'Yaakov,
v'Imoteinu: Sarah, Rivka, Rachel v'Leah,
Hu yivarekh virapei
et haholeh/haholah _____________ ben/bat ______________

HaKadosh Barukh Hu
yimalei rahamim alav/aleha,
l'hahalimo/l'hahlimah,
u-l'rap'oto/u-l'rap'otah,
l'hahaziko/l'hazikah,
u-l'hay-oto/u-l'hay-otah.

V'yishlah lo/lah bim-hera
r'fuah shlemah,
r'fu-at hanefesh u-r'fu-at hagoof,
b'tokh sh'ar holei Yisrael vholei yoshvei tevel,
hashta ba'agalah u-vizman kariv,
v'no-mar, Amen!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-02-12 20:49|| 2006-02-12 20:49|| Front Page Top

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