Physician's Prayer with English Text

Size: Measures 15" x 19" matted and framed and is printed on 300 gm recycled "Tree Free", acid free paper. Offset Print.

Price: $148 Framed (Includes shipping 3-5 day service by EMS)

The Rambam's Physician's Prayer, signed by the artist, was created, printed and framed in Jerusalem. Zeesi, the artist, has the ability to bring the warmth, joy and beauty of Jerusalem and Judaism to her art. In this piece, we see a dazling mixture of warm colors, the Torah at the top and a magnificant floral design in the middle enveloped by desert flowers in the border.

This is the English version of the blessing. We also offer a Hebrew version.

The prayer was written by the Rambam. The most renowned Jewish physician in the Middle Ages, who was also a distinguished rabbi and philosopher, was Moses Maimonides (the Rambam, 1137-1204). Born in Cordoba, he fled to Fez. Later he went to Palestine and then to Cairo, where he became a physician at the court of Saladin and his sons. Maimonides had a prodigious literary output, including extensive writing on medical matters. These were written at the end of his life, after his monumental halakhic and philosophical works. Maimonides strongly believed in prophylactic medicine. In his Guide to the Perplexed he wrote: "Among a thousand persons only one dies a natural death: the rest succumb early in life owing to ignorant or irregular behavior." Maimonides considered the study of medicine a very important factor of Jewish ethics. It helps to maintain the fitness of the body and enables the Jew to purify and raise his strength to an uplifted ethical plane.

This is a wonderful addition to physician's office or as a gift for anyone in the medical field.

This piece comes matted and framed in a frame chosen by the artist. The frames are all wood and extremely high quality.

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