Shabbat 12B

רבי יהודה אומר: ״המקום ירחם עליך ועל חולי ישראל״. רבי יוסי אומר: ״המקום ירחם עליך בתוך חולי ישראל״. שבנא איש ירושלים, בכניסתו אומר: ״שלום״, וביציאתו אומר: ״שבת היא מלזעוק ורפואה קרובה לבא, ורחמיו מרובין, ושבתו בשלום״. כמאן אזלא הא דאמר רבי חנינא: מי שיש לו חולה בתוך ביתו צריך שיערבנו בתוך חולי ישראל? כמאן ⁠— כרבי יוסי.

R' Yehuda says that it is appropriate to say: May God have compassion upon you and upon all the sick people of Israel. R' Yosei says that it is appropriate to say: May God have compassion upon you among the sick people of Israel, thereby including this sick person within the community of Israel. When Shevna of Jerusalem would visit a sick person on Shabbat, upon entering, he would say shalom. And when he exited he would say: It is Shabbat when one is prohibited to cry out, and healing is soon to come, and His compassion is abundant, and rest on Shabbat in peace. The Talmud asks: In accordance with whose opinion is the halakha that R' Ḥanina said: One who has a sick person in his house must include him among the sick people of Israel in his prayer? In accordance with whose opinion? In accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei.

ואמר רבי חנינא: בקושי התירו לנחם אבלים ולבקר חולים בשבת. אמר רבה בר בר חנה: כי הוה אזלינן בתריה דרבי אלעזר לשיולי בתפיחה, זימנין אמר: ״המקום יפקדך לשלום״. וזימנין אמר ליה: ״רחמנא ידכרינך לשלם״. היכי עביד הכי? והאמר רב יהודה: לעולם אל ישאל אדם צרכיו בלשון ארמי. ואמר רבי יוחנן: כל השואל צרכיו בלשון ארמי ⁠— אין מלאכי השרת נזקקין לו, שאין מלאכי השרת מכירין בלשון ארמי! שאני חולה דשכינה עמו.

And R' Ḥanina said: It was only with great difficulty that the rabbis permitted to comfort the mourners and visit the sick on Shabbat, as both the visitor and the comforter experience suffering on Shabbat. They permitted it only due to the mitzva involved in these activities. Rabba bar bar Ḥana said: When we would follow R' Elazar to inquire about the health of a sick person; sometimes he would say in Hebrew: May God remember you for peace, and sometimes he would say to him in Aramaic: May the all-Merciful remember you for peace. He would say it in Aramaic when the sick person did not understand Hebrew (Rav Elazar Moshe Horovitz). The Talmud asks: How did he do this, pray in Aramaic? Didn’t Rav Yehuda say: A person should never request that his needs be met in the Aramaic language? And, similarly, R' Yoḥanan said: Anyone who requests that his needs be met in the Aramaic language, the ministering angels do not attend to him to bring his prayer before God, as the ministering angels are not familiar with the Aramaic language, but only with the sacred tongue, Hebrew, exclusively. The Talmud responds: A sick person is different. He does not need the angels to bring his prayer before God because the Shekhina is with him.