For issues - in halacha and Jewish thought - about people who are not healthy.
Questions tagged [choleh-sick]
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What is judaism's view on the purpose of illness?
What is Judaism's view on illnesses? Is the point to punish the person who gets sick, as found with Chizkiyahu, who didn't listen to God about getting married (and I think Yeshayahu rebuked him and said - bhadai kivshei rachmana, lama lach?) and…
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Sick and causing others to get sick as well
If someone who attends yeshiva catches a cold, is he allowed to attend yeshiva the next day if he will get other people sick?
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Why does God allow a person to experience great suffering at an old age
I have watched elderly people with disease, suffering and experiencing moments of despair like Job did, eager to die because life has lost all it meaning to them. There is no longer any joy, or delight, only suffering, discomfort and pain. Yet the…
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Neurodiversity - autism , dyspraxia, dyslexia and ADHD
The word neurodiversity was coined in 1998 by Judy Singer who was the daughter of a holocaust survivor. It is more than a word but rather a paradigm that people with autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD are not illnesses just differences. What is…
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