Spiritual Healing

From a Shiur by Shira Smiles on Parshas Beshalach

Parshat Beshalach: Ultimate Healer

Why does Hashem send us illness. Hashem does this for 2 reasons. Sometimes as a nisayon to help us grow and sometimes as a punishment. A punishment is not a negative things, but a way that Hashem is lovingly trying to guide us to move in a certain way.

The reason that Hashem caused the bitter water to become sweet through a tree(a symbol of Torah), was a lesson to us that we should not go 3 days without Torah.

This is to teach us that when illness strikes we have to look inwards and strengthen our Torah learning and observance. Our job is to look for a spiritual cause, not to view it as the reason, but a reason, and to look to correct it.

When we daven to Hashem to send us a Refuas Hanefesh, we should have in mind that Hashem should send us a spiritual healing, a way of knowing what we need to correct so that we should not come to need a physical healing.