Q&A: Is There a Segulah Against Women’s Habits?
Is There a Segulah Against Women’s Habits?
Question
The women’s habit is to carry the phone and wallet by hand everywhere.
By hand.
Yes, specifically and only by hand.
Not, Heaven forbid, in pockets (there aren’t any, or even if there are, it ruins the look),
and also not in a bag because it’s always not right for the outfit, etc.
And that’s how they go out shopping, running errands, to work, etc.
The result is that every so often the wallet or phone disappears or gets stolen.
All the explanations, of course, don’t help.
Is there some effective segulah for this issue?
Answer
Every morning, immediately after the blessing “Who has not made me a woman,” stand on one leg and recite the chapter “Out of the Depths,” and afterward say with tremendous emotion, “Rabbi Benjamin said,” and finally conclude with the letters of wallet and the letters of soul in Psalm 119. Tested and proven.
Discussion on Answer
With God’s help, 7 Tammuz 5782
The advice for carrying a mobile phone in a way that fits aesthetics is hinted at in the words of King Solomon: “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm.”
This advice is implemented today in a “smartwatch” that also includes a cell phone. Inside the phone one can also install apps through which payment can be made without any need for cash or a credit card. All transactions are carried out in the app, so the smartwatch functions as a cell phone, a camera, and a wallet all in one.
A less sophisticated method is to place the mobile phone in one of the wallet’s compartments, but the problem still remains: where do you store the wallet? In my humble opinion, one can integrate the wallet into a piece of jewelry worn on the chest, which when needed can be opened and the “wallet-phone” inside used.
Best regards, Nachshon Gershon HaNaami
In the book My Mother’s House, about Rebbetzin Kanievsky of blessed memory, it is told that one woman asked the Chazon Ish for a segulah against forgetfulness, and he replied: “The proven segulah is to do immediately what you intend to do, without postponing it, because postponement leads to forgetfulness.”
Best regards, Nega
Nowadays, when women are accustomed to completing tractates of Talmud, they can have in mind, when mentioning the ten amoraim whose father’s name was Pappa, that this “will help for forgetfulness [= against forgetfulness], with the help of the blessed God.”
Important to note: the right leg, otherwise it works in reverse. Amazing how the Rabbi forgot that.