[Avodah] Our Attitude towards Segulos

[Harry Maryles]

--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Yitzchok Levine <Larry.Levine at stevens.edu> wrote:


The following is from http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/segulos.pdf  This article appeared some time ago in the Hamodia. 

This is a big file, so it will some time to download. 

The Mezhbuzher Rav, Harav Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Bick, shlita :

[Segulos ] are nothing more than bubbe maasos, eitzas yetzer hara that
give people a license to spend money way beyond their means and then ask
for a yeshuah. All these formulae ­ saying Shir Hashirim forty times, Tehillim
HaChida, etc. ­ are methods used by the yetzer hara to take from us the little
[spirituality] we have left.
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If Segulos are  bubbe maasos and eitzas yetzer hara - How can a respectable Tzedaka like Kupat Ha'ir use Segulos as a means of rasing money? And how can a Gadol like R' Chaim Kanievsky endorse giving Kuat Ha'ir Tzedaka for the purpose of those Segulos? 
 
HM

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