... and guilt out of an illness. Perhaps you haven’t been eating well, taking the right vitamin supplements, keeping your stress level down, or simply avoiding others who have the flu. It’s easy to extend the list of possible missteps in a spiritual direction: You’re sick? You must have done something...

.... All o f us, it w ould seem , are looking forward to The separation o f powers in our Federal governm ent, the rigidity som ething different than what we have today. o f C ongressional com position created by gerrym andering, the Som e things no doubt w ill be different: we w...

... Huckabee or McCain or Nader our program and ideas) people w ill not know where to go or w hat or whoever. We see the big picture. We know that the key is to keep to do, and instead w ill sim ply be w aiting for th e next round o f the the hopeful energy alive, regardless o f the outcom e o f...

... in dispensing with the idea of illness after all, but just in the military metaphors of invasion and civil war. Instead, let’s return to the original Old French etymology of desaise from des (without) and aise (ease)—because addiction is never easy, nor is recovery from it. But the idea of bringing...

... share our circum stances. racism, sexism , and hatred, but by the spiritual crisis in their lives We are certain that if w e start talking to others that they w ill feel that the Left failed to address and the R ight spoke to (albeit with that their privacy has been invaded and w ill resent...

.... No one had ever spoken to me about my father’s mental illness, not even two years earlier when his brief, ter­ rible crime was featured in our local paper. He had stabbed another member of my family...

... ikkun Novem - whole business o f “essential then it is ironic that Campolo can the ills o f a collective. It is ber/D ecem ber 200 7 ). The seff” is more com plicated does not realize that this the self-reflective individual m ost fundam ental o f all than his table-pounding sin­...

... most important public health target. One allegation is that doctors offer useless treatments to seriously ill people, in order to offer anything at all. Patients living with dying ought to be offered “all the options.” By “all,” I mean the well-meaning urge of medical professionals who help them tend...

...: First was the development of medicine as a profession rather than a craft, with the elevation of doctors as elite—strong on power and weak on empathy. Concurrently, hospitals became the repositories for the treatment of the ill, with further separation of charity hospitals for the poor and private...

... of Genesis, which describe the hospice death of the Jewish patriarch Jacob. After Jacob became ill, he summoned his children and grandchildren, and requested burial in the Caves of Machpeleh, alongside his parents (Isaac and Rebecca) and his grandparents (Abraham and Sarah). He gave blessings to his sons...

... that they are mentally ill, that they should be “over it” by now. And although Posttraumatic Stress Disorder accurately implies that their anguish results from trauma, PTSD is located in the official listing of mental disorders, thus branding their response to war as abnormal and marginalizing them even more...

... ethical focus, Buddhist teachings say little about evil per se but a great deal about the three unwholesome motivations, also known as the "three poisons” or the "three roots of evil”: greed, ill will, and delusion. In popular Buddhism, karma is usually understood as a way to get a handle on how...

...Adrian Ferbeyre ( adrianferbeyre.daportfolio.com ) “As anyone who hasstayed up through thenight with an ill childknows, parenthood isall about self-sacrifice,” the author writes. Here, artist Adrian Ferbeyrereinterprets The GivingTree , Shel Silverstein’s beloved story of nurturingand sacrifice. ...

... WWW.TIKKUN.ORG T IKK UN 61 The word for dance and the word for illness, taught Rebbe Nachman of Breslav, are related: m a’cho’l for dance, machah’lah for illness or affliction. Not by accident do they both share the same root. After all, dancing...

..., see me. And and take him in my arms? such actions did take place factually, the the community hears, sees, and responds. I wish I had told him what I thought actor cannot be held accountable by Jewish My father’s illness seemed outside human then: If you knew my father, if you...

... population was multiplying exponentially, the proportion of prisoners suffering from serious mental illness was also expanding. There are now ten times as many prisoners with serious mental illness behind bars as there are in state and federal psychiatric hospitals. I have had the privilege of appearing...