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Can amulets--talisman with healing powers--provide protection to the wearer? Yes, but only if the amulet is first proven to have healed three people. Superstitious? Perhaps. But as the Sages taught, belief follows action. One must live their faith.#Shabbat61
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Random medical treatment prepared/ prescribed by non expert: Not permitted on Shabbat. Treatment prepared/prescribed by professional with experience: Permitted at all times. #Shabbat61 #DafYomi #TweetTheDaf #ListenToTheExperts #StayHomeSaveLives
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Today’s #dafyomi is about amulets. In other words, materiality& healing have long been intertwined in Jewish cultures. Most interesting thing in this daf: the maker matters. (Meet a modern US amulet maker in my book this fall!) #materialreligion #AmRel #jwitter #Shabbat61
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A tough one for sneaker culture in today's daf: the argument for wearing shoes is between a) avoiding pain and b) seeking comfort. Nowhere in there are factors of freshness or status! #DafYomi #Shabbat61
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The Sages teach us how to don our shoes Jewishly: Always put on the right shoe first, followed by the left, lace the left shoe and only then the right. Ritual observance + mindfulness + a bisl of OCD (orthodox compulsive devotion)#Shabbat61
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#Shabbat61 When one washes: wash the right, and after that the left. When one puts on oil, put on the right and after that put on oil on the left. On this page, the rabbis discus, in detail, the proper order of…
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Today's page of Talmud is all about amulets: https://t.co/CruPbU1qEK
#jewlearntalmud #dafyomi #Shabbat61
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For an amulet to be effective, it needs to work thrice. In other words: The third time's a charm. #DafYomi #Shabbat61
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