C'mon, admit it. I'm sure you have some barely spoken of superstition that you are surprized yourself that you adhere to it. Do you open an umbrella indoors? Do you eat the end of a kugel?
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Are you superstitious
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Posted 3 months ago #
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the end of a kugel? which end? that's a new one. or did you make it up?
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A couple came home to find two doves sitting on their dining room table. They went to ask R Chaim Kanievsky what this sign meant
Answer: סימן שהחלון היה פתוח
(for those browsers that don't do Hebrew: 'it's a sign that the window was open')Posted 3 months ago # -
haha who knows that one that if you sit at the corner of a table you dont get married for seven years!
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I thought if you break a mirror you'll have 7 years of bad luck.
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I didn't make up the kugel one, but I know someone who did. He was afraid for what skiaddict mentioned.
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and what about the end of a banana?
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i routinely cross black cats, i've walked under ladders, i've broken mirrors, and i was born on friday the thirteenth. dont mess.
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"for what skiaddict mentioned." Ha now THAT is being superstitious!
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Actually, I think that walking under ladders isn't a matter of a superstition. I learned it in a class years ago and was told that it had to do with "going into a makom sakona". Check out if there is any truth to that.
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Nechoma, do you posses any superstitions that smoking kills?
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is there any connection between superstitiousness and kosher leshiksa?
oh and I think it is superstitious for me not to have a......
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Do you eat the end of a kugel?"
WHY? That's the best part. The only bad luck is that there's no more kugel left...
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Good point about going under the ladder, especially if the guy is on his way down, where he won't get Galus.
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oh and forgetting to turn the tap off is also serious bad luck
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not going under a ladder is christian superstition
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"oh and forgetting to turn the tap off is also serious bad luck"
it may cause a huge water bill
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Do you eat the end of a kugel?
How about the end of a bagel?
kosher leshiksa
Did you mean something that is kosher for a non-Jewish female? Or have you FORGOTTEN what you really intended to write?
To be serious for a minute, there are many things instructed by ר' יהודא החסיד not to do that "seem" superstitious eg not walking on a place where there was once a fireplace, not blocking off an open space eg window or door, not polishing shoes the day before travelling etc etc. Whatever there is in כח דקדושה there is also in כח דטומאה .
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I used to be superstitious until I heard that being superstitious causes early death.
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…if you sit at the corner of a table you dont get married for seven years
Russian superstition, only applies for girls (Wikipedia).…if you break a mirror you'll have 7 years of bad luck.
Started by rich people in the days when mirrors were terribly expensive, to scare their servants into being careful when polishing the mirrors. (Uncle John’s)not going under a ladder is christian superstition
Correct, the ladder, the wall it’s leaning against and the ground form a triangle, so walking thru the triangle is “breaking the trinity”. (Uncle John’s)13 is unlucky, because there are 12 members in a witch’s coven, plus the devil. (Uncle John’s)
Also, the 13th apostle was Judas, and Yoshka was crucified on Friday (Uncle John’s)
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To follow superstitions is assur doraisa-Lo Senachashu. Tamim Tihye.
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In England, you'll often find streets without a number 13, or with someone Jewish living there.
A relative booked to have an operation, with usually a few months waiting time. The following Friday was the 13th of the month and so there was an empty slot - no-one wanted an operation on an unlucky day. It was her lucky day.
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Longa, it probably would fall under Darkei Emori. Lo Senachashu is for saying that since a certain random thing happened, something will happen.
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CAP - please explain - do the #s on the street change depending on who lives there? How did they determine if a Jew is going to live there and for how long?
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No, I'm not superstitious.
I find that atheists tend to be superstitious. I want to study that one day,when I have a bit of extra grant money.Posted 3 months ago # -
Nechomah: streets without a 13 were numbered that way when the street was built. Houses with a 13 are avoided by superstitious people, so Jewish people often take them.
Did a quick Google. A study found that houses numbered 13 were £4000 (approx $6k) cheaper than neighbouring houses. A metzia for a yiddishe kop.
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according to English law you can name and rename ur house what you want,
quick yiddishe kop......£4000 profit a buildingPosted 3 months ago # -
Squeak, that reminds me of Niels Bohr. It is said of him that he had a rabbit's foot hanging on the door to his lab. When asked how he, a scientist, can believe in that he replied, "I heard that it helps whether you believe in it or not."
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