<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2008 7:06 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, January 13, 2008 9:20 am, R Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>: What is unclear is how wer they effective? if they had a certain :<br>Tefillah or affirmation [e.g. this amulet wil bring a refuah shleima :
<br>to its wearer ...] then it might not have worked by means of "magic" :<br></div>but rather by means of "positive thinking" similar to a pacebo...<br><br>It might even working by creating hirhurei tefillah, and thus
<br>generating zechuyos in the sechar/va'onesh plane. (As I suggested<br>earlier on this thread.)<br><br>SheTir'u baTov!<br>-micha<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Question: If hirhurei Tefillah were THEh dynamic then what is the difference between a muchzak who has had 3 successful amulets and one that has NOT had a successful amulet?
<br> </div></div>AISI f positive thinking is involved then one's confidence would be boosted by a muchzak and NOT by a rank amateur. But withi hirhurim it would be about the same either way...<br><br clear="all"><br>--
<br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>