paganism
Hello, Honorable Rabbi, would you define people who call themselves rabbis who open fortunes, cast evil eye spells, amulets, etc. as practicing idolatry?
And if not, is there a halakhic prohibition against this?
Too general a question. I would have stayed away from them anyway.
I received an ad that they do a soul redemption according to the RASH every month for a living, Mazal Tov, etc. (of course, for a fee, and it's also published on a site that everyone knows). It sounds like a hallucination to me, doesn't the rabbi think this is a scam for a few shekels?
Fraud also requires deliberate intent.
Someone out there may actually believe it.
True story: There was once a rabbi who read mezuzahs (I don't have those powers, so I have no idea what he would see there), and one day a man came to him who was suffering from something that he had sought help from doctors and to no avail. He went to the aforementioned reader and looked at the mezuzah and told him that it was punishment for speaking badly of Rabbi Schach and that he should go and ask for forgiveness from him. The man went to Rabbi Schach and told him things as they were and of course asked for forgiveness. Rabbi Schach replied, "I forgive you on the condition that you no longer go to the aforementioned mezuzah reader."
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