[Avodah] The Return of Chometz

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> And some pe'ulos are simply mnemonic. Like the bracelet one switched
> from wrist to wrist every time you lose patience with someone. (R' Perr
> of Yeshivas Derekh Aysan beat Operah by decades on that one, although
> he used a rubber band. Admittedly, he has no marketing opportunity in
> his version...)
>
> Itwould be rare, though, outside the context of a va'ad, for someone to
> say "we *all* should". Different people need work in different areas,
> and different people respond to different kinds of work.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>


I don't know the origin of this but it is a classic Beharioral-school
techinque to use a rubber band. Maybe Skinner came up with that one, It's
been in the self-help worldat LEAST since the 1970's

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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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