He takes many things into account — our actions, our future, our past — all are influential in His final diagnosis
This pasuk seems difficult to understand. Why does Hashem say He is “our healer”? Is healing unique to Klal Yisrael? Hashem heals all people. In the brachah of asher yatzar, we refer to Hashem as “the healer of all flesh.” If so, why does the pasuk seem to indicate that Hashem is specifically Klal Yisrael’s healer? (Rav Shimshon Pincus, Tiferes Shimshon)
Every family seems to have their go-to sickness, the one that hits everyone as soon as a stray germ’s in the air. I know families who have the stomach flu on a regular basis and another who trade migraines as though they were contagious. In our family, it’s communal strep syndrome.
We’re obviously a sharing, caring family because no sooner than one child has strep, he passes it along to his siblings. Not only that, many of my kids get strep without even showing traditional symptoms.
Last week Binyamin was under the weather for a few days with a niggling headache and exhaustion. My family doctor is a gem and knows us well. So when I asked for a culture based on a few days of headaches, he didn’t blink an eye. Sure enough, Erev Shabbos I got the results that Binyamin had strep.
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