How it works
What exists now, and what would exist at launch
This page separates the two, because most pre-launch health sites blur them. Everything in the first section is real today. Everything in the second is a plan, and the plan has conditions attached that have not been met.
Available now
Today: guides and a waitlist
Step 1
You read a guide
Free, no signup, no paywall, no email required. Each guide is built from named public sources, labels, annual lists, published halachic literature, and lists them at the end with the date they were checked.
Step 2
You take it to your clinician and your rav
The guides are written to make two conversations go better: what to ask the clinician before a fast, and what to print for the rav. Your clinician owns the medical call, your rav owns the religious one. Not us.
Step 3
You join the waitlist, or you do not
The waitlist is free, is not a purchase, and requests no care. It records an email and two optional answers, and it sets the order people are contacted in if Refuah ever launches.
That is the whole of it. There is no intake form, no questionnaire that ends in a recommendation, no test to order, no checkout anywhere on this site, and no rabbi answering questions here.
Why a brand for this at all
The information problem is specific and fixable
The facts an observant patient needs already exist in public. The label lists every inactive ingredient of the exact formulation.[2] The Passover guidance and the annual lists are published and updated every year.[1] What no telehealth service does is put those facts in the patient's hands, formulation-exact and cited, and plan care around the calendar those facts live in.
That is an information and design problem, and information and design problems are the kind a service can actually fix, without ever touching the questions that belong to your rav.
What we are not claiming
- Not that we rule on anything. Refuah publishes label facts and named positions with citations. The religious call belongs to your own rav, on every page and in every planned product.
- Not that we can match you with a clinician who shares your background or speaks your language. That capability is not built, and we will not promise it until it is.
- Not that fasting with your condition is safe, or unsafe. That is a conversation with your own clinician, and the OU's own guidance says to treat stopping a medicine with extreme caution and both your doctor and your rabbi.[1]
Planned, not available
At launch, if launch happens
Planned
A visit with a licensed clinician
A real clinician, licensed in your state, reviewing your history and your questions. If the answer is that nothing is needed, that is the answer, and it is a good outcome.
Planned
An ingredient sheet with every product
Every product would ship with a label-cited ingredient disclosure sheet for the exact formulation, written so you can hand it straight to your rav. Facts, citations, no ruling.
Planned
A plan that knows the calendar
Care planned around fast days and festivals with your clinician, nothing scheduled and no reply expected on Shabbat or holidays, and every religious question routed to your own rav.
Planned prices for all of it are already published on the pricing page. None of it can be bought today.
The condition on launching
Refuah launches care only with the community at the table
Three things have to be real before Refuah treats anyone: a rav who will go over every fasting and medication page and be credited on it by name, an endocrinologist or a doctor of pharmacy co-signing every fasting protocol, and community clinical leadership holding real equity. All three, not one. That search is open right now, and none of the three is filled.
Sources cited on this page
- [1] OU Kosher, Kosher for Passover medicine lists and guidelines, including the caution to consult your doctor and rabbi before deciding not to take a medicine. https://oukosher.org/passover/medicine-guidelines/. Accessed 2026-08-09.
- [2] DailyMed, Ozempic (semaglutide) prescribing information, the public label listing formulation-exact inactive ingredients. https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/lookup.cfm?setid=adec4fd2-6858-4c99-91d4-531f5f2a2d79. Accessed 2026-08-09.
Guides now, care only after the gate
The guides are free. The waitlist is free too.
Joining the waitlist is not a purchase and not a signup for care. It sets the order people are contacted in if Refuah launches, and launch waits on a rav, a clinical co-signer, and community leadership, all still unfilled.