[Avodah] effects of relgious worship on health (fwd)

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:44:47PM -0500, Rich, Joel wrote:
: I'd vote for a study of saying tehillim versus learning versus prayer
: versus gmilat chessed to see how to get the most bang for the buck
: invested.

In true Quantum Mechanical style, there is no way to take a measurement
without influencing the results.

1- You're shifting the act to be al menas leqabeil peras.

2- Perhaps this is the whole reason why berakhah is impeded by counting.
Because HQBH giving something in a way that "shows his 'Hand'" (to use
a poker idiom) requires more zekhus than getting the same thing without
the gift of evidence of His existence.

So, neither the cause or the effect is really the same if the
measurement is being taken.

In <http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2005/01/free-will-and-environment.shtml>
I wrote about the Seforno's shitah that "hichbadti es leiv Par'oh"
was a /preservation/ of his bechirah, in that it kept him from being
influenced by miracles that he was not on a plane to experience.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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