Bikur Cholim: Words That Lift a Sick Person | Rabbi David Akilov

is a mitzvah, kibud and also it's a mitzvah bikur cholim. What is bikur cholim? To go and visit [music] a sick person. When we come to a sick person, is a segulah not to mention his name by the by him when you praying next to him. Number one, number two, don't stand [music] by the person's head. When you coming to pray or to talk to him, don't stand by the head because by the head by the head staying the shalom of Hashem. It's always important to be on the side or by the foot, but never by the head. Only could be by the head a person like a doctor, like a nurse. They are allowed to come to visit him and to check his blood pressure, to visit his uh temperature, but don't stand by the head and pray. Number one, number two, it's a very important when we come to the sick person, we should tell him something good news about good health. This is looking good, he's looking better. And always try to tell him that don't worry, you're going to get up, you're going to be feel better. Give him honor that he should be feel better. But if you have some bad news, don't come to sick person or when you tell him that something something bad about his health or that he owes you something, don't come to the sick person because this sick person will be has for sure not get that even worse. [music] We're not here to make make sure a person feel bad, but we here to make a person should be happy. How the person going to be happy? [music] By talking to him nicely with a good good words. This is very important. Number one, number two, is also is very important when we come to the sick person, we must say the words what says in the parsha Balak. Like Moshe Rabbeinu saw Miriam she sick and she was separated in the forest for for a couple of days and then not all the prophets was separated from her their wife, but Miriam and her husband, they were separated. Why? Because she was a saying lashon hara. And because of this, Moshe Rabbeinu is still teaching us that we should when we're coming to a sick person, we should say for the man, El na refa'na lo, and for a woman, El na refa'na la. If we not say these words, and even though we brought fruits, we brought food, we brought medicine, and we didn't say at least these five words, we did not fulfill the mitzvah of record calling. But, one person is sick twice sitting and calling him, that's a majority. Why? Because of when one person is sick, the others they're looking [music] for him, helping him, it means everybody is sick. That's why it's a big mitzvah to fulfill the mitzvah of Torah, "Veahavta lere'akha kamokha." You go, watch, and love the others. This that's the whole mitzvah of our Torah. Baruch Hashem Amen ve'Amen.