What people generally forget is the origin of segulos and simonim. The main point of tefilah is not the actual act of prayer. It’s the making yourself ready to pray, the work that goes into bringing you to the point of prayer, and then the aftermath of the prayer session. This is the concept of becoming an oved Hashem, of serving Hashem. The idea of making Hashem’s rotzon as your rotzon. Then when you have a rotzon, Hashem gives it to you. Pirkei Ovos. A seguloh was doing something that showed openly your desire to do something that would make Hashem kaviyochol “happy” with what you did. And the seguloh was similar to the idea of what you wanted to accomplish. The seguloh worked because you exhibited clear intention to be an oved Hashem with the act of doing or having the seguloh. That avdus is what made the seguloh work. If not, if you just do segulohs, then you’re in the rut of “mi bikeish zohs miyedchem ramos chatzerei”. Your olos and korbonos are too much for G-d to tolerate.
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