Visiting the Sick

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This sensitive and informative volume provides the reader with a practical and inspirational introduction to the ethical obligation of bikur cholim, the mitzvah of visiting the sick and dying in order to provide comfort and help.

To successfully perform this profoundly important mitzvah, author Sharon S. Epstein offers us:

Insights into the nature of illness and death;

Guidance on how to overcome our fears regarding visiting people who are ill, and;

The skills and training necessary to perform the mitzvah of bikur cholim effectively.