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.
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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 🙂 ).
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