Health, Illness and Healing

To live is to yearn: to yearn to rise higher.

The way that HEALTH opens the door to your spiritual well-being

When your doctor gives you instructions for your health, listen up. If he starts predicting your fate, tell him that¹s none of his business. Whether you will be healed is decided in a heavenly court by your Maker. The limitations of medical science haven¹...

Translation By the Grace of G-d 5th Menachem Av, 5723 Brooklyn [July 26, 1963] Greeting and Blessing! I confirm receipt of your letter of 7/23 and the enclosure. I will make use of the postscript at the conclusion of your letter that I need not write to y...

abraham By the Grace of G-d 15th of Sivan, 5718 Brooklyn, N.Y. [June 3, 1958] Greeting and Blessing: I was pleased to receive a further cable from Rabbi Shemtov, that you and your family are making exceptional progress in your recovery. May G-d grant that...

Deeper than the wisdom to create is the wisdom to repair. And so, G‑d built failure into His world, so that He could give Man His deepest wisdom:The wisdom to repair.

The origin of all illness is the lovesickness of the soul. She yearns to return to her Beloved Above, and so is repulsed by the human form, her prison of pain. There are two things, therefore, that you must heal: your body and your soul. You must bring th...

Why be angry about your faults? Did you expect to be born flawless? Have you labored so hard as to have achieved perfection? Anger at your faults is arrogance, and of a very self-destructive form. Every failure becomes pain, every pain becomes a gruesome ...

You may have invented a most brilliant philosophy. If it helps no one, not only is it not true, in the final result it never was. For all that is, whether physical, spiritual, or divine, was only created for the repair of this world. And once that repair ...