Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project

Eye on Religion: A Jewish View on Miracles of Healing

Authors: Aaron L. Mackler, PhD

Abstract

Jewish tradition understands a miracle as a wonder that manifests God's beneficent power. A miracle (nes in Hebrew) could be supernatural, but it need not be. While God has the ability to act in a manner that goes against the “orders of creation” (sidrei breishit) that He has established, the regularity of this order itself wondrously manifests God's beneficent power. A central goal of Judaism is to train its followers to appreciate God's wonders in daily life.

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