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Rav Ḥelbo fell ill. There was no one who came to visit him. Rav Kahana said to the rabbis: Didn’t the incident involving one of the students of R' Akiva who became sick transpire in that manner? In that case, the rabbis did not enter to visit him, and R' Akiva entered to visit him and instructed hi
When Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia he said: Anyone who visits the ill causes that he will live, and anyone who does not visit the ill causes that he will die. The Talmud asks: In what way are his actions the cause of that result? If we say that anyone who visits the ill pleads for m
The Talmud relates with regard to Rava: On the 1st day that he was ill, he would say to his family: Do not reveal to any person that I am ill, so that his luck not suffer. From this point forward, when his situation deteriorated he would say to them: Go and proclaim in the marketplace that I am il
Rav said: Anyone who visits the ill is spared from the judgment of Gehenna, as it is stated: “Happy is he that considers the poor; YHWH will deliver him in the day of evil” (Psalms 41:2). In this verse, the term poor [dal] means nothing other than ill, as it is stated in the prayer of Hezekiah when
And if one visited the ill, what is his reward? The Talmud wonders at that question: What is his reward? It is as Rav said: He is spared from the judgment of Gehenna. Rather, the question is: What is his reward in this world?