The Torah commands, “K’doshim tihyu.” Holiness is not reserved for lofty moments alone, but is created through our everyday actions. Among the mitzvos listed in Parshas K’doshim is the warning, “Lo seileich rachil b’amecha,” teaching that true k’dushah begins with how a person speaks.
Chazal explain that guarding one’s speech preserves achdus among klal Yisrael. Words have the power to heal or to harm, to unite hearts or to create distance between people.
Living a life of k’dushah means choosing words of kindness, respect, and chizuk. Through refining our speech, we elevate ourselves and bring greater shalom into the world.
May our words be filled with Torah, t’filah, and goodness, and may we be zocheh to r’fuah and y’shuos for all of klal Yisrael.
List of People Who Need a r’fuah sh’leimah (a complete recovery)
Please recite Psalms 20, 30, 88, 121, and 130.
Maxim Yehudah ben Yafah
Aharon ben Shamsi
Michael ben Chayah Sarah Beheta
Shmuel ben Itta Etel
Mordechai ben Shoshana
Zaidah Eliezer Zev ben Shifrah
Yehoshua ben Devorah
HaRav Pinchas ben Alta Sima
Yisrael Meir ben Hadassah
Yossi ben Ratzon
Yair ben Alfred
Uriel ben Amir
Tamir ben Moshe
Shachar ben Aharon
Rab ben Yitzchak
Ronen ben Tomer
Yisrael ben Yocheved
Yoel Sar Shalom ben Nelly
Avraham Mordechai ben Yael
Yitzchak ben Dinah
Eliezer ben Chanah Malkah
Meir Aryeh ben Devorah
Moshe ben Chanah
Yaakov Dov ben Pninah
Yaakov ben Ethel
Moshe Yonatan ben Tziporah
Yehudah Leib ben Mania
Yochai ben Ruchamah
Yechezkel ben Miriam Yehudis
Avinoam Yosef Nissim ben Shoshanah Roza
Refael ben Dukhtar
Netanel ben Rachel Leah
Alter Yaakov ben Esther Brachah
Ilan ben Miriam
Sh’maryahu ben Raizel Shoshana Miriam
Anatoliy ben Raisa
Heleni Orna bas Chen Chanah
Iris Rachel bas Miriam Chayah
Chanah Brachah bas Svetlana Tziporah Chayah
Sarah bas Shoshanah
Maya Mazal bas Zivah
Tamarah bas Ksiyah
Esther Hadassah bas Devorah
Chayah Shulamis Brachah bas Sarah Leah
Leah bas Ita
Devorah bas Miriam Zisel
Ruchamah Sarah Fraida bas Hadassah
Sharonah Mindy bas Rivkah Rachel
Chayah bas Shterna Sarah
Sharonah Mindy bas Rivkah Rachel
Miriam bas Freida Etya
Rivkah bas Yaffah
For the Protection of our Chayalim (Please recite Psalms 25, 26, 46, 83, 142.)
Menachem Zion ben Ariel
Hillel Zev ben Ariel
Shmuel Pesach ben Chinah
Yehudah ben Elisheva
Dov Ber ben Rachel Chayah
Hillel Yisrael ben Tzilah
Zechariah Yisrael ben Elisheva Feiga
Yitzchak Yehudah ben Elta Draizel
Zechariah Menachem Chaim ben Elta Draizel
Yair Menashe Shmuel ben Shoshanah
Shmuel Tzvi ben Liba
Daniel Abba Tzvi ben Chayah Tz’rina
Yechiel Aharon ben Sarah Miriam
Aryeh Simchah ben Chayah Michal
Amitai ben Yitzchak Venvar
Yisrael Yehudah ben Elisheva Rachel
Shmuel Yosef ben Adinah
Neta (Nechamah) bas Avital Emunah
Naomi Emunah bas Inbal Nechamah
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