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If you ignore the need for this blessing to come into our world by natural means, and demand instead a supernatural miracle, you are shirking your responsibility. You are abandoning the earthly realm you were placed within to purify. You are disassociating the human act of healing from the Divine, declaring it foreign to G-d¹s purpose. The blessing too may run away, seeing it has no door to enter.
But if you do whatever you can to prepare your world to receive this blessing -- there is no shortage of means for the Healer of All Flesh to send His healing.