Amazing Segulah to get tefillos answered

↑ PinkFridge

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 9:23 am

amother DarkYellow wrote:

And to your last point, the risk of segulahs is that they are presented as magic hope. Meaning we know you cried your eyes out to hashem, davened and begged for a yeshuah and it wasn't enough. But....if you write down what you want and tie it to a string and connect it to the menorah, then you might get hashem's attention. Really? Is that hashem's system? And then when it doesn't work (and it doesn't for many) people are discouraged and lose hope.

I really hope that what I'm saying doesn't hurt anyone's feelings.

I totally get your post.
As for tying something around the menorah, I see it this way: When someone does this, she takes the time to think, what are her deepest desires and she'ifos? And she works on herself the whole year to be the person who is worthy of them, and able to see the small kindnesses on the way and every day nissim. Because those threads about the menorah, e.g., often say, it happened the second year. Or, the first year brought so much other brachah, thank you, Hashem.

grace413

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 9:33 am

[quote="amother Skyblue

And many never get the tefilos answered, no matter what they do.[/quote]

I won't go so far as to say tefilos are not answered, but sometimes the answer is no.

You can daven from here til tomorrow, improve your shmiras mitzvos in many areas and that still does not guarantee that your wishes will be granted. Maybe after 120 we will understand why.

amother

↑ Skyblue

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 9:51 am

grace413 wrote:

I won't go so far as to say tefilos are not answered, but sometimes the answer is no.

You can daven from here til tomorrow, improve your shmiras mitzvos in many areas and that still does not guarantee that your wishes will be granted. Maybe after 120 we will understand why.

In my mind getting a no means that your tefilot were not answered.
If you were davening for a baby ad gd said no, your tefilos were not answered.

amother

↑ DarkYellow

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 10:07 am

grace413 wrote:

Thank you for this post. I'm always amazed when posters say that a segulah "worked" because they got what they asked.

Meanwhile many that did the segulah didn't get what they asked.

Many that didn't do the segulah got a yeshua anyway.

So the very obvious question (to me Smile

) is whether segula's work? Did in fact the older singles who did the segulah find shidduchim more than those that didn't do the segulah? Did the people that were struggling with infertility that did the segulah have more yeshuos than those that didn't?

How do we ignore these seemingly blatant and obvious questions? I truly question everything when I see posters say that their segulah "worked" and not realize that their claim is the essence of faulty logic.

amother

DarkViolet

Thu, Jan 02 2025, 3:30 pm

amother Skyblue wrote:

In my mind getting a no means that your tefilot were not answered.
If you were davening for a baby ad gd said no, your tefilos were not answered.

My Take on this:
He created you
He knows what is good for you and for your neshoma
He loves you more then you love yourself

But its so hard when you daven and daven and dont get what you are davening for.
And that's when Emuna, Faith steps in.

Learn it to feel it