How would you phrase a refuah (recovery from illness) tefillah (prayer) for a sick gentile?
"Thomas ben [=son of] Mary"?
"Thomas Smith"?
Is it appropriate to include the name during the misheberachs (public prayer for sick people) in the synagogue? I have occasionally heard misheberachs for English-sounding names, but had assumed that was because the Hebrew name was not known.
Answer
To your first question:
My guess would be that there's no reason to classify non-Jews' relationships with their mothers as any different than Jews' relationships with theirs, and that therefore the same formula would apply.
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