The Doctors Forbid Tehillim
According to Chassidic tradition, Rav Avrohom Moshe recited Tehillim with such exertion, in fixed melodies, that he broke into a sweat and sometimes coughed blood. The doctors ordered him to stop saying it aloud. From then on he took to listening while others recited the chapters.
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