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amother
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 Sun, Apr 09 2017, 1:50 am
Anyone with Hungarian background who heard of this: you're not supposed to sit at the corner of a table? also when you sneeze, you're supposed to pull your ear? Also you're not allowed to kill a spider because you get 7 mitzvos and 1 aveira?
Are there made up or real things? Sources if you know?
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skinny
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 2:02 am
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haha my mom used to tell us the same thing growing up lol just somegood o'l hungarian superstition
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 2:16 am
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Tzutzie
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 2:41 am
Haha.
Walk over another person. You have to go back....
Chew when someone is doing alterations on something that you are wearing.
Wipe away the crumbs with a disposable cloth or with sweep it with a knife. (Or maybe that was just my grandma's thing. Never heard it from anyone else.)
Not supposed to hand over the broom in middle of sweeping a room.
There's a whole lot more.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 2:56 am
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 3:07 am
I'm Ukrainian and the sitting at the corner thing is a Russian superstition.
Handing a child across a table is a kabalistic thing. Pulling ear I know gedolei hador that do (I also do it). Chewing when sewing is because you sew clothing on a dead person's tachrichim.
Do you know that people bow by amen yehai shmay raba? And you're not only not supposed to do it you're not allowed. The men don't do! By barchu you're meant to raise your feet on tippy toes not bowing. Did you know that?!
I hope you are know doing this post to make fun.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 3:08 am
| crust wrote: | | You're not allowed to look at the moon hand a child over to someone across the table sorry cant recall the whole list. |
The moon thing is by kiddish levana. A women should not look at the people saying kiddish levana or look at the moon at the time it's being recited -now that I know it says in sforim.
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zaq
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 3:37 am
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What are the supposed consequences of sweeping crumbs with a knife?
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Iymnok
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 3:47 am
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Just FYI tachrichim are not sewn on. They are tied on with a special type of slip knot done by two people in a specific way.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 4:53 am
•If you sneeze while someone is talking about a person who died, you're supposed to pull your ear.
•You're not supposed to rip off a loose thread from your clothing while you're wearing it. This symbolizes a mourner tearing kria on himself.
•You're not supposed to put a hat or shoes on a table. Don't know the reason.
•You're not supposed to kill spiders because it was a spider that saved Dovid Hamelach in the cave.
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mommy3b2c
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 8:20 am
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I'm Hungarian, hear of some of these. Don't take any seriously.
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 8:21 am
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amother
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 8:26 am
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Tzutzie
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 8:42 am
| zaq wrote: | | What are the supposed consequences of sweeping crumbs with a knife? |
It can bring poverty.
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NovelConcept
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 11:37 am
| crust wrote: | Seagreen wrote;
Handing a child across a table is a kabalistic thing.
I am honestly curious. Where in kabbalah is this from? Any source? I will appreciate. |
I don't have a source at the tip of my fingers, but I believe it isn't kabbalah per say; it may even be halacha.
A table is like a mizbeach, and the non jews of ancient times would sacrifice their children. So passing a child over a table can seem similar to pagan rites, so we avoid it.
That is where I think it comes from.
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tigerwife
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 11:46 am
| zaq wrote: | | What are the supposed consequences of sweeping crumbs with a knife? |
If she meant the opposite- as in, you should use a knife or napkin to sweep up the table and not your hands, it could come from this: I remember learning that crumbs on the table become muktzah after bentching; however, one can still clean them up with a shinui such as using a napkin but not to touch with your hands. Perhaps one of the source-generating posters can confirm (Ima Softov?).
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tigerwife
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 11:49 am
| Tzutzie wrote: | | It can bring poverty. |
Never mind 
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Iymnok
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 11:49 am
I'm curious about some minhagim of some chassidish friends of ours. Regarding babies.
No mirrors until he has a tooth.
No fish until he could talk.
Anyone know a source, reason or what it may cause?
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Ilovemaryland
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 1:11 pm
By my mother it was pull yoyr when you sneeze
By my fathers family only if your talking about the deceased
When my father visited his in laws the first time
He thought they are always thinking about death
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amother
Natural
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Sun, Apr 09 2017, 1:29 pm
I have a brother who became a Stoliner chosid. He says that the rebbe pulls his ear when he sneezes but none of the chasidim knew why. One day ,in the 1980s, one of the Chasidim who copied the rebbe passed by an old Russian lady (not frum)When she saw him pull him his ear when he sneezed she said nostalgically in Yiddish "That is what we used to do because it tears out the soul"
I'm not sure what we she meant but I'm guessing as follows. Chazel say that the reason people say "Bless you" to sneezers is because people used to just sneeze and die. Similarly there was probably some sort of segulah pertaining to that chazel behind the minhog of those who pull their ear when they sneeze.
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