Have you heard about reciting PSALMS seven times to heal a sick person (R"L)?

Question

If you have, please give me some more information about it.

I just heard about it yesterday and I want to know if it really works.
Thank you,

I'm Jewish and I recite Psalms (Tehillim) in Hebrew. My friend told me of a couple of incidents where they recited Tehillim 7 times (they divided the chapters with around 50 people) and the person was cured.
I do not want to hear about the "New Testament" since it is not eternal or true. However, the TORAH, is and when I mention psalmes, I am talking about the TRUE VERSION and not something that was made up by some jew with long hair.

Answer 1

It is a simple test. Go find someone who is incurably sick - perhaps a birthdefect like downs or a missing limb or something like that. Then go do your seven times thing.

If the person is healed then repeat the experiment a few times to make sure.

If it is still working then publish a paper. You would probably become the most famous person in the world.

Answer 2

Have not heard of that one specifically, but I am not surprised to hear that it is being taught. The scriptures are a powerful weapon. Jesus used them when he was tempted by satan. Every one of his answers was a scriputral quote. Often when a person does receive a healing ro other miracle, it is because they grabbed on to a scriptural promise and refused to let it go until they got the blessing from it. So I am sure that there are people who have been healed by reciting the Psalms seven times.

But it was not the "ritual" of reciting the Psalms seven times which got them healed. Jesus said we are not to pray by simple reciting the same thing over and over. (Matthew 6:7-8) And saying the Psalms to get a healing would be "praying". Rather it was their faith in the God which got them healed.

Now, by reading through the Psalms, or other scriptures, multiple times, they could have increased their faith and their understanding. The Bible says that faith comes from hearing the word of God. That increased faith could bring them the healing.

But just read through the Psalms, or anything else, seven times as a "ritual" or a "magic formaula" will not do it. Unless God specifically talk you to do it seven times as an act of faith (like he told Namaan in the Old Testament to wash seven times to get a healing). But even then, it is the faith that brings the healing, not the work of reciting.

Answer 3

Sure it works- try reciting psalms to an amputee and I'm sure their limb will grow back.

Answer 4

No. The Bible is NOT a book of spells, incantations, or talismans. Merely repeating something does not make it work.