[Avodah] superstition

[Akiva Blum]

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R"n Toby Katz wrote:
> I agree with RET that this sounds like something
> superstitious, as does cutting all your nails out of
> order (and also making sure to gather all your nail
> parings lest a pregnant woman step on one and miscarry)

R' Akiva Blum responded:
> That one's different. It's in the gemora. Moed Katan
> 18a, reason included.

I'm not sure what RAB meant by "that one". What is the "reason included" on that
daf which RTK didn't mention?

If he was referring to cutting the nails out of order, I did not see anything on
that daf on that topic.

If he was referring to making sure that a pregnant woman doesn't step on the cut
nails, that daf does mention that, but I didn't see anything beyond what RTK
wrote.

Akiva Miller
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I was of course referring to the 'leaving fingernails around' one. The point
being that anything that the gemorah tells us is dangerous, and how, is hard to
call superstitious, or the reason superstitious, whether the cause and affect
are clearly apparent to us or not.

Akiva