[Avodah] When one is ill

[Rich, Joel]

Rich, Joel wrote:
>
> IIRC there's a gemara that details a progression for steps when one is

> ill, first praying for themselves then asking others to pray for them.

> Can someone point me to where this gemara is.
>

Berachos (55b):The third commenced and said: If a man falls ill, the
first day he should not tell anyone, so that he should not have bad
luck; but after that he may tell. So when Raba fell ill, on the first
day he did not tell anyone, but after that he said to his attendant: Go
and announce that Raba is ill. Whoever loves him, let him pray for him,
and whoever hates him, let him rejoice over him; for it is written: 
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when
he stumbleth, lest the Lord see it and it displease Him and He turn away
His wrath from him.26
Daniel Eidensohn
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Thanks to R'DE.  
I was wondering if this is brought down anywhere in practice.  I know
that praying for oneself is as well as praying for others but I don't
recall seeing the stages as above.  I'm asking since in a local shul it
has become common practice to say tehillim for "a member of the
community". When I queried about who it was, I was told that they wanted
to remain anonymous. It seemed to me that this makes any prayer or
tehillim less effective,  Thoughts on these competing priorities or my
assumption on value?

KT
Joel Rich
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