Reply To: Segulos and Superstitions

pashuta yid – yes I agree that sheidim don’t really make any difference in our day to day lives and when something bad happens to somebody, they should do teshuva and not blame it on sheidim. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t exist. (I heard they got sent to an island by some big Rav way back when.) It could just mean that we aren’t on the level to ‘see’ them. But in earlier times they were much more a part of their lives and therefore they had to daven to save themselves from them.

They also could be Hashem’s messengers to give the punishment and do the destruction. They could be Hashem’s invisible Shaliach.

HaLeiVi – To all those who are so bothered with the fact that Segulos are taking away from Emuna, how come nobody complains about going to doctors and getting expensive security systems?

That already crosses into the whole thing with bitachon vs. histadlus. But it’s not really the same. Hashem created the world where we aren’t supposed to rely on miracles. If someone gets sick, or they live in a bad neighborhood al pi derech hatevah they need to go to the doctor and put up a security system. That doesn’t take away from the fact that they also need to daven because Hashem is ultimately in charge. That goes for anything, even segulos.

But what I think is a problem is when people rely only on segulos. Meaning, any frum Jew who goes to the doctor or whatever they know that Hashem is the one who is gonna bring a yeshua. But a frum Jew might rely solely on the segula instead of relizing that everything is from Hashem because segulos are from the Torah and all.