The Northampton Seminar
Why does the Ibn Ezra take a limited view of the mandate to heal? Are we indeed in agreement with the Christian scientists who teach that all healing comes from God, to the exclusion of human medical intervention? The Ibn Ezra’s case is not a hard one to make. The Torah itself instructs that if we listen carefully to the mitzvot of the Torah “then any of the diseases that I placed upon Egypt, I will not bring upon you, for “I am God, your Healer” Exodus 15:26.
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