פִּדְיוֹן

The primary healing of the sick is only through redemption. The Torah did not permit a doctor to heal except specifically after the redemption [see Healing] (Part II, 3).

Rising at midnight is effective like a redemption (149).

One who fills the throats of Torah scholars with wine is considered as if they gave a redemption (Part I, 45). It is fitting to accustom oneself to give for redemption each time to sweeten the judgments from upon them each time. Even when there is no sick person or distress in their home, it is good to make redemptions each time to prevent coming to distress or illness, G-d forbid. This is the practice of many upright people in the states of the Holy Roman Empire [Caesar, may his glory be exalted], Vienna, who constantly give for redemptions [see the matter of Redemption in sections 41, 180, and 315 regarding the twenty-four types of redemptions] (Chayei Moharan, Service of G-d, 92).