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C’mon, admit it. I’m sure you have some barely spoken of superstition that you are surprized yourself that you adhere to it. Do you open an umbrella indoors? Do you eat the end of a kugel?
the end of a kugel? which end? that’s a new one. or did you make it up?
A couple came home to find two doves sitting on their dining room table. They went to ask R Chaim Kanievsky what this sign meant
Answer: ???? ?????? ??? ????
(for those browsers that don’t do Hebrew: ‘it’s a sign that the window was open’)
haha who knows that one that if you sit at the corner of a table you dont get married for seven years!
I thought if you break a mirror you’ll have 7 years of bad luck.
and what about the end of a banana?
i routinely cross black cats, i’ve walked under ladders, i’ve broken mirrors, and i was born on friday the thirteenth. dont mess.
“for what skiaddict mentioned.” Ha now THAT is being superstitious!
Actually, I think that walking under ladders isn’t a matter of a superstition. I learned it in a class years ago and was told that it had to do with “going into a makom sakona”. Check out if there is any truth to that.
Nechoma, do you posses any superstitions that smoking kills?
is there any connection between superstitiousness and kosher leshiksa?
oh and I think it is superstitious for me not to have a……
Do you eat the end of a kugel?”
WHY? That’s the best part. The only bad luck is that there’s no more kugel left…
oh and forgetting to turn the tap off is also serious bad luck
not going under a ladder is christian superstition
“oh and forgetting to turn the tap off is also serious bad luck”
it may cause a huge water bill
Do you eat the end of a kugel?
How about the end of a bagel?
kosher leshiksa
Did you mean something that is kosher for a non-Jewish female? Or have you FORGOTTEN what you really intended to write?
To be serious for a minute, there are many things instructed by ?’ ????? ????? not to do that “seem” superstitious eg not walking on a place where there was once a fireplace, not blocking off an open space eg window or door, not polishing shoes the day before travelling etc etc. Whatever there is in ?? ?????? there is also in ?? ?????? .
I used to be superstitious until I heard that being superstitious causes early death.
Russian superstition, only applies for girls (Wikipedia).
not going under a ladder is christian superstition
To follow superstitions is assur doraisa-Lo Senachashu. Tamim Tihye.
In England, you’ll often find streets without a number 13, or with someone Jewish living there.
A relative booked to have an operation, with usually a few months waiting time. The following Friday was the 13th of the month and so there was an empty slot – no-one wanted an operation on an unlucky day. It was her lucky day.
CAP – please explain – do the #s on the street change depending on who lives there? How did they determine if a Jew is going to live there and for how long?
No, I’m not superstitious.
I find that atheists tend to be superstitious. I want to study that one day,when I have a bit of extra grant money.
Nechomah: streets without a 13 were numbered that way when the street was built. Houses with a 13 are avoided by superstitious people, so Jewish people often take them.
according to English law you can name and rename ur house what you want,
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