Reply To: Using an Image of A Rabbi for Shmira

The question of a photo as an amulet, begs the larger question of amulets and kemeiyos in general.
Many kabbalists wrote kemeiyos as segulos which people wore, while other rabbonim were/are against them.
On a lighter side, the famous badchan Yankel Miller answered this way:
What’s the difference between a ke’meiya and a meiya ( a hundred dollar bill) ?
A K”meiyah means it’s LIKE a meiya.. (K’ means like, or similar in Hebrew)
It’s not an actual meiya…. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t… A Meiya works all the time.