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<font size=3>At 09:59 PM 1/7/2014, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The blogger above makes a
fundamental error and misquotes the Aruch<br>
HaShulchan; the Aruch HaShulchan begins with a question - why don't we
say<br>
it? He says, I don't know, I am troubled, we need to be me'yasheiv
this<br>
minhag! (I am paraphrasing, these are not his exact words, but they
are<br>
clearly his intent, look it up.) And then he continues, as the blogger
does,<br>
to say reasons why the minhag became - contra to the Tur and Shulchan
Aruch<br>
- not to say Parshas HaMan as part of the daily prayer order. <br>
The Yerushalmi that the AhS quotes (from the Derishah) is also quotes by
the<br>
Tashbatz, as per the Mechon Yerushalaim Tur; also per there, they must
have<br>
had a different girsa in the Yerushalmi.<br>
I really think that the people who have been so active and vocal on
social<br>
media today about not saying Parashas HaMan are doing so because
they<br>
learned the Biur Hagra on the Shulchan Aruch that says to say it every
day.<br>
The Gaon says that one of the reasons to say it is to remind us that if
we<br>
spend all our time learning then Hashem will make sure that we have do
not<br>
have to work to have Parnassah. QED.<br>
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The 9 Sivan 5768 issue of Hamodia Magazine featured an article about
segulos. (The Hamodia kindly gave me permission to post the article
on my web site, and it is at
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/segulos.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/hamodia/segulos.pdf</a> ) In
part the article quotes the Mezhbuzher Rav, Harav Avraham Yehoshua
Heshel Bick. According to him<br><br>
[<i>Segulos</i> ] are nothing more than <i>bubbe maasos</i>, <i>eitzas
yetzer hara </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 little<br>
[spirituality] we have left.<br><br>
Prayer, on the other hand, is not a <i>segulah</i> ; prayer is a way of
communicating with the <i>Ribbono<br>
shel Olam</i>. When we use <i>segulos </i>to get what we want, it’s as if
we are stealing something from Him,<br>
something that is not rightfully ours. It reminds me of today’s Chinese
auctions at charitable events.<br>
Whereas women used to give charity without ulterior motives, they have
now replaced their <i>mitzvos<br>
</i>with Chinese auctions.<br><br>
Furthermore, the Yated carried two articles about this topic titled The
Kishke Segulah - Part I and Part II. With the permission of the
Yated I have posted these articles at
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yated/kishke_segula_1.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yated/kishke_segula_1.html</a> and
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yated/kishke_segula_2.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/yated/kishke_segula_2.html<br><br>
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