Nails and OCD
Hello Rabbi,
The ban on throwing away nails and the fear that a pregnant woman will miscarry because of it weighs heavily on my soul because of my disorder (I have feelings of excessive responsibility and an inability to tolerate ambiguity). I never throw nails of course, not even small pieces, only in the toilet, but I constantly have a fear that it will fall, or that I will bite or clip and a small piece will fall and I will not find it (as happened now in my room, and my sister is pregnant and she does not come into my room that much, but whatever trouble comes; this is why I am stressed and want to ask you). It is very burdensome and I am tired of thinking about whether a woman can come here and whether she will miscarry because of me. To what extent do you think there is any truth in the ban because of this and how much caution is worth taking in your opinion.
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I will add and tell a great story, that when my wife was pregnant, I made sure that she stepped on a nail that I had trimmed that never moved (as the Gemara commands), and yet, praise be to God, she did not miscarry and the child was born healthy and intact.
Blessing the one who repays for the miracle?
If you hadn't stepped on the nail, you would have turned out to be the Rabbi Akiva Eiger of our generation. There would have been a miscarriage in spirituality.
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