I lit 2 candles for 40 days

Posted: Tue, May 25 2010, 8:08 am Post subject: I lit 2 candles for 40 days

1 for reb menachem mendel miriminov
1 for reb amrom chasside
and I was helped

Posted: Tue, May 25 2010, 8:24 am Post subject: re: I lit 2 candles for 40 days

can you explain this segula?
do you have a source?

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Doesn't anyone daven anymore? Confused

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Posted: Tue, May 25 2010, 2:17 pm Post subject: re: I lit 2 candles for 40 days

I lit one leilui nishmas reb menachem mendel ben reb yosef miriminov and was helped. (got pregnant)

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Shalhevet, people who do these kinds of segulos don't not daven because they figure a candle will help. They daven, light the candle and daven, and daven some more.

When you daven for 15 years for something and it doesn't happen and then you light this candle and daven for 40 days and on the 40th day it does happen, you figure maybe it was the segula that tipped the scale.

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if you guys dont belive in segulot its OK , but some of us DO ! PLEASE RESPECT THAT .

Posted: Sat, May 29 2010, 9:57 pm Post subject: re: I lit 2 candles for 40 days

this thread clearly was not intended to be controversial, and it is therefore really not nice to debate segulos here! start a seperate thread if you wish, but over here you should just be happy for OP.

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1.I don't understand what the controversy on this thread has to do with believing segulos help or don't. I mentioned at the beginning that I am certain some segulos, brought down by tzaddikim are effective. I look at it as a kind of hishtadlus - like going to the doctor as well as davenning.

2.What I find very disturbing is not that people do segulos and/or that they help, but the tone of several posts here - that it (almost) sounds like the posters rely on the segulos instead of davenning to Hashem. BTW, I would find it just as disturbing if someone had IF or a terrible illness and wrote that it's all thanks to Dr. XYZ because he cured them/ gave them a child blah, blah and didn't mention that they davenned. Actually the OP wasn't even so bad, but later posts just got worse and worse until we got to the point that the imahos were answered because of segulos Confused

3. I wouldn't include asking a tzaddik to daven for someone, or going to kivrei tzaddikim and davenning to HASHEM to answer them IN THE ZECHUS OF THE TZADDIK to be segulos - both these inyanim are certainly firmly rooted in Torah.

4. I got lost somewhere about 'yeshuos'. Was I correct that posters were saying that you can daven for "little problems" but if you need a "yeshua" (whatever that means) then forget davenning, because you need a segula? - that was the impression I got here.

5. I find it very offensive that posters decide to "assume" things about other posters without knowing anything about their lives. Your post made it sound like it's okay to worship avoda zara (I am not comparing a"z to a segula - just the tone) if you are desperate enough, but knowing nothing about my life, you are sure that I was never as desperate as you were.