[Avodah] Interlocking the Fingers of the Right Hand with the Fingers of the Left Hand

[Zev Sero]

>> So the ban on smoking is...smoke?

> No, a pesaq based on a pre-existing deOraisa and given current knowledge

So's this.  If interlocking the fingers is dangerous, and there's an issur
on doing dangerous things, then it would follow that an issur is justified.

In any event, I've never heard that interlocking the fingers is *assur*.
Rather, it's a bad thing to do.  I have itchy fingers, and have never
been able to keep for long from interlocking them in order to rub them
against each other.  Whenever my father would see me doing so he would
tell me to stop, but he never once said it was assur, or reacted as he
would if I were doing something assur.  It was more on the level of
"don't pick your nose".


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