luck
There are laws that are based on assumptions that are not necessarily true. For example, the Gemara at the beginning of Ketubah and in other places on the subject: “Your field is covered with dust, and your luck is your destiny”, etc. My question is: If today it is understood in the world of science that there is no such thing as good luck or bad luck, and that various phenomena can be explained in the form of statistics and the like, do these laws change?
If it is clear that the halakha in question is based on an error, then if the error was there from the beginning (when the halakha was established) it is invalid. But not always what is clear to you is really clear. It is worth asking and consulting beforehand. It is worth checking whether the halakha is really based on these errors (you may be mistaken in your understanding of the halakha). For example, in the matter of your luck, and depending on luck is not necessarily a matter of logic. Sometimes it is an expression of a coincidental event, and therefore if it happened to you, it is your problem. The terminology is “your luck, and causing.” For example, in the case of Ma’an or Mazal in the issue of the three-times assumption in Yevamot (regarding a woman whose three husbands died). But if you have an explanation, then of course the matter should not be tied to luck in this sense either.
Maimonides did indeed dismiss these concerns: (answers, blau. riech)??
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