<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:12 AM, 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;">
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And some pe'ulos are simply mnemonic. Like the bracelet one switched<br>
from wrist to wrist every time you lose patience with someone. (R' Perr<br>
of Yeshivas Derekh Aysan beat Operah by decades on that one, although<br>
he used a rubber band. Admittedly, he has no marketing opportunity in<br>
his version...)<br>
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Itwould be rare, though, outside the context of a va'ad, for someone to<br>
say "we *all* should". Different people need work in different areas,<br>
and different people respond to different kinds of work.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>I don't know the origin of this but it is a classic Beharioral-school techinque to use a rubber band. Maybe Skinner came up with that one, It's been in the self-help worldat LEAST since the 1970's <br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>