AvramMD:
“This is why horoscopes are so popular. People can pull out from them what they desire. ”
I fully agree with your skepticism. I offered my Rabbi’s observation as an empirical statement but I have no objective proof regarding the alignment between the letter and the persons issue.
DY: Also, sometimes the letter seems to be irrelevant to the current question.
“How does your rabbi explain that?”
In our discussion he implied that the answer was there except it was beyond the ability of the seeker to understand it. I purposely did not include this aspect in my original post since it does little to move the argument forward.
Similarly, arguing that a person turned to a specific page due to a splinter in the finger that would not have been turned to had the finger not had a splinter gets us nowhere.
As my Rabbi explained, these phenomenon need to be understood by rules beyond nature if in fact there is a metaphysical reality to the practice.
Now let me ask the non-Chabad folks a question if I may: What does one achieve by saying Kaddish? (Beyond tradition and commandment)