<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>--- On <B>Sat, 1/17/09, Yitzchok Levine <I><<SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1232374674_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Larry.Levine@stevens.edu</SPAN>></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv401234031>The following is <FONT size=3>from <A href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/segulos.pdf" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1232374674_1><U><FONT color=#003399>http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/segulos.pdf</FONT></U></SPAN></A> This article appeared some time ago in the Hamodia. <BR><BR>This is a big file, so it will some time to download. <BR><BR>The Mezhbuzher Rav, Harav <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1232374674_2>Avraham Yehoshua Heshel</SPAN> Bick, <I>shlita</I> :<BR><BR>[<I>Segulos</I> ] are nothing more than <I>bubbe maasos</I>, <I>eitzas <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1232374674_3>yetzer hara</SPAN> </I>that<BR>give people a license to spend money way beyond their means and then ask<BR>for a <I>yeshuah. </I>All these formulae ­ saying <I>Shir Hashirim </I>forty times, <I>Tehillim<BR>HaChida, </I>etc. ­ are methods used by the <I>yetzer hara </I>to take from us the
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<DIV>If Segulos are <EM>bubbe maasos and</EM> <I>eitzas <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1232374674_3>yetzer hara</SPAN> </I>- How can a respectable Tzedaka like Kupat Ha'ir use Segulos as a means of rasing money? And how can a Gadol like R' Chaim Kanievsky endorse giving Kuat Ha'ir Tzedaka for the purpose of those Segulos? </DIV>
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