Reply To: Seemingly ordinary things that are actually a problem in halacha or Kabalah

(^I don’t think that was a good answer.)

I should have written more clearly about my intention, namely,

to see if posters could either substantiate or debunk the things

mentioned, as well as give more examples of this sort of thing.

I didn’t mean to make a definite statement that they were assur

(which I accidentally did with the thread’s title).

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Additional things mentioned in this thread (and not confirmed/debunked):

I think I saw somewhere that there’s an inyan al pi kabbalah

not to put on’s hands below one’s waist.

Passing a baby over a table.

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I heard something about it being dangerous to drink an even number of cups of wine. Anyone have a source for this?

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P'sachim 109b. (And Bava Metziah 86a.)

If I’m not mistaken, cups of wine are not the only thing

the Gemara in P’sachim warns against even numbers of.

Likewise IINM, most people nowadays are not makpid on it.

do you have a m.m. for those 3?

No.

Pouring a drink backwards.

I said it (“underhand”).

(Or, if that was in response to SDD, that was 2nd.)

For anyone looking for mekor keneged most of these see

Devarim 18:13

Presumably, the posuk is “Tomim tihyeh…”

Comlink-X, how do you stop a baby from trying to look above or behind his head? (Or her head, as the case may be?)

I think the theory of those who say this goes that it won’t unless

you talk to it from that position, or move out of its field of vision in that direction (“and behind” was not meant as a second case). This “issue” is one I’m rather skeptical about…