| Health & Healing
Torah guidance on preventive healthcare
and spiritual healing
This page has links to:
• A Call to Live: Torah guidance on healing
• Preventive healthcare education for young people
• Parents and teachers' handbook
• Wings of the Sun: In-depth study of the Torah Path of Healing
•Can we find meaning in suffering
• Shrink or Rebbe?
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HEALTH FOR OUR CHILDREN |
A campaign by parents, rabbis, doctors and teachers promoting healthy lifestyle
among Jewish children and teenagers
in Israel and the Diaspora
through innovative healthcare education
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A CALL TO LIVE
Torah Guidance on Healing
FREE on-line book for those facing serious illness and those who care for them
"Behind the distress and frustration of illness lies a deeper message. It is a call to live! There is no more effective way to encourage the healing process than by deciding to live life to the full extent that you can now. Making this decision is one of the most important steps you will take to recovery."
Preventive Healthcare
for young people
TOTAL FITNESS
Torah-friendly tips on keeping healthy, including diet, exercise, hygiene, sleep, care of eyes and ears and more
"Yashar ko'ach on this blessed initiative. The healthcare guidance is reliable and fully consistent with the Torah view and contemporary medical science." Professor Avraham Steinberg,
Professor of Child Neurology,
Editor of Encyclopedia of Refuah & Halachah |
More about the Hebrew printed version |
"Very important work
All Bney Torah should practice what is written here!"
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach
Rosh Yeshivas Maalos HaTorah
Read "Total Fitness" Online NOW
For parents and educators:
A HEALTHY FUTURE
How to teach healthcare to children at different ages
"Done beautifully in good taste and with wisdom
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HaRav Ovadia Yosef
Rishon LeTzion
"The books deserve a place in every Jewish home and every Torah educational institution"
Dr. Geoffrey Greenfield, Pediatrician, Jerusalem |
More about the Hebrew printed version |
Read "A Healthy Future" Online NOW
1 Contemporary Health Hazards:
Why preventive healthcare is more vital today than ever before
2 Guard yourself!
The mitzva of caring for body and soul
3 Teaching our Children
4 Modeh Ani
Understanding and Appreciating of the Body
5 Cleanliness and Hygiene
6 Danger! Take Care!
7 Food and Diet
8 Physical Activity and Exercise
9 Sleep, rest and relaxation
10 Joy of Living
The Torah Path of Healing
THE WINGS OF THE SUN
Traditional Jewish Healing in Theory and Practice
by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum
Free unabridged online version
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WINGS OF THE SUN is a clear, informative study of Torah teachings on healing, providing sound yet easily understood explanations of profound kabbalistic concepts together with a wealth of practical guidance for those facing illness or caring for the sick. |
To read the online version, CLICK HERE
To order the printed book, CLICK HERE
Can we find meaning in suffering
Articles by Reb Avraham Greenbaum
A Matter of Faith
Torah view of Suffering
Shrink or Rebbe?
MP3 lecture by Reb Avraham Greenbaum
The roots of modern secular psychotherapy can be traced to the ancient Torah pathway of confession to a Tzaddik (the Sage). As we advance into an uncertain future, therapists should reconsider contemporary assumptions about mental health care and apply teachings of Chassidut in order to enhance the service they provide to their clients.
Lecture given on 26 Marcheshvan 5770 / 13 Nov '09 at Toronto Lodzer Centre under the auspices of the
Jewish Health Alliance of Canada
Hear/download the lecture 56:07 minutes |
