A spell to find something lost
Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to know what you think about the blessing of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess, “Rabbi Binyamin said, ‘Everything is considered a sumin…'” for finding lost things.
I ask this because of some rather miraculous coincidences that happened to me and my friends after reciting the blessing.
Do you think there is room to say that it is useful?
Thank you in advance.
Hello.
I highly doubt it. In principle, anything is possible, but it is usually also possible to find simple explanations for these kinds of “miracles” that people experience.
For example, after saying this mantra, you become sharper and more focused and then you remember where you lost things (sometimes you remember it unconsciously, meaning you go there from a hidden memory and then discover the loss).
Another possibility is that there is some probability of finding a lost item even without remembering, or remembering even without saying the mantra. Sometimes it works completely by chance, and if it happened when you said the mantra, you hang it on it. And maybe it happens even without the mantra, but when you say it, you obviously remember things better.
For example, if I tell you that a certain medicine works for a certain disease, and every time you get sick you take it. It worked once, and then you get the impression that it really works. But here too, there are all these possibilities: maybe it’s a placebo, and maybe it’s spontaneous healing, and so on.
A systematic study on the effectiveness of a drug is supposed to neutralize all these phenomena, and therefore there is a requirement that there be a systematic study (with a sample and control group, to neutralize spontaneous healing) and double-blind (to neutralize placebo). After the study is done with a proper method, the “miracles” disappear. See all in the appendix to the books God Plays Dice. To formulate a position on saying the mantra – I suggest that you do a systematic study on a sample and control group of people who lose objects (while also giving the control group a different mantra to say, to neutralize the “placebo”), and see if you see significant results. Tested and tested (which you won’t see, of course 🙂 ).
What does the Rabbi say about the virtue of R’ Chaim, there is no one else besides him?
I don't know her. But my opinion on virtues is written above.
I agree that it is impossible to really test this (and you shouldn't try, it is enough to say that heaven will do it ‘exactly’ if you want to test it), but it seems to me that examining this with statistical or scientific tools is irrelevant, here it seems to me that each case is on its own merits. Therefore, in my opinion, it is not necessary to prove statistically that it works in order to decide whether there is a point in using it, and it is enough to hear stories about individual cases. What do you think?
The sages said, "You will reach and find — believe it
It is worth searching carefully and if you do not find – that is also for the better
If you believe in virtues, then look for virtues that will make you wise!
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A,
I wrote my opinion above. What else do you want me to write? Go after individual cases and conclude what you want. Haha, I just addressed the law of small numbers in my column 38. Read it carefully: https://mikyab.net/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94-%D7%95/
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