[Avodah] kinetic healing and halacha

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> The Chinukh seems to be describing standard magical thinking, found
> in alchemy, Enochian "Qabbalah", Gnosticism, etc... For that matter,
> not to far from a voodoo doll -- make changes on the representation in
> order to cause changes in the represented.

Wouldn't alchemy, when people still believed in it, be physical, too? I 
believe that we generally consider alchemy the precursor of modern chemistry.
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