[Avodah] "Blei Gissen" should we believe in this?

[Micha Berger]

I just sent out:
: As RZS already noted, though, it is hard then to make heads or tails
: of pereq Bameh Ishah. The discussion on Shabbos 61 is about medical
: kemei'os. This gets into the whole question of what is wrong with
: "whispering". As well as the question recently asked on another thread
: about placebo effect.

But I didn't say my own take... I would guess they're extra-halachic
mnemonic devices, aids to kavanah, that cite a pasuq or keta that
inspires the wearer. Thus, reducing kemei'os to sechar va'onesh. (As
I'm trying to do to all these references.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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