[Avodah] superstition

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:52:24 +0200
"Akiva Blum" <ydamyb at gmail.com> wrote:

...

> 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.

Rambam (in his famous responsum on katlanis - see Kesef Mishneh Isurei
Biah 21:31) comes pretty close to calling katlanis a superstition,
although his exact intention isn't entirely clear.

Yitzhak
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