<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite">I don't know how <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">someone can state with a straight face that the Amoraim did not believe</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in or use segulot and amulets. One can argue with the Rambam that they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">were mistaken in so doing, but to deny that they did so in the first <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">place?</span></blockquote></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Let's not forget the placebo effect. One can even say that HaShem may choose to use the placebo effect as one modality of influence.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">ri</span></font></div></div></body></html>