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Biting off pitom

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tcdsv

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 1:50 am

Can anyone share the source and tefilla to say?
Thanks

DrMom

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 1:59 am

Curious. Never heard of this.

zaq

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 2:17 am

Supposedly a segulah for easy labor.

monkeyland

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 2:22 am

Yes would like to also know thanks

dankbar

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 2:32 am

Also to have a ben zuchor

Ruchel

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 5:47 am

pregnancy

shabbatiscoming

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 6:04 am

I loke how people keep on posting more and more things its a segula for but no source......

Success10

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 6:21 am

The segulah appears in the "Sefer Moed Lekol Chai" along with the appropriate tefillah. I have the tefillah here, but I am unable to upload a screenshot, so best to google it.

NotLazySusan

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 11:32 am

Sorry, no source or tefilla.
I was married 5 weeks and my sisters in law gathered around and told me to bite pitom off for easy labor. I had never heard of such a thing and was mortified. I don’t remember though if I complied. I was already pregnant but didn’t know it yet. And labor lasted 50 hours Very Happy

Last edited by NotLazySusan on Fri, Oct 09 2020, 11:37 am; edited 1 time in total

thunderstorm

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 11:36 am

That’s weird. My DH always had me do it as a segula for Shalom Bayis. Lol

chili-n-cholent

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 11:54 am

From what I know its a segulah for becoming pregnant and easy labor (or maybe its an old wives tale?!?)
I would love a source

Chana Miriam S

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:03 pm

Given how much pesticide they use, it seems like it would be a Segula for fetal damage.

amother

Firebrick

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:13 pm

My husband says it’s a minhag for the women in child bearing years, I do it yearly!

amother

Firebrick

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:13 pm

andrea levy wrote:

Given how much pesticide they use, it seems like it would be a Segula for fetal damage.

You don’t eat it you bite off the pitom with your teeth.

amother

Wheat

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:42 pm

https://www.theyeshivaworld.co.....abbah

amother

Burlywood

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:45 pm

I only did it when I was pregnant and it's a segula for easy labor .
4 years ago I was in my first trimester just a few weeks pregnant. My mom didn't know yet and I told her I did it but she didn't chap lol

amother

Turquoise

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:47 pm

Success10 wrote:

The segulah appears in the "Sefer Moed Lekol Chai" along with the appropriate tefillah. I have the tefillah here, but I am unable to upload a screenshot, so best to google it.

Thanks for the info! I searched and found it!
https://I.imgur.com/WJHJZEW.jpg
https://I.imgur.com/qnuJHfy.jpg

tcdsv

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 12:51 pm

amother [ Turquoise ] wrote:

Thanks for the info! I searched and found it!

https://I.imgur.com/qnuJHfy.jpg

Thank you!!

Rubber Ducky

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 1:15 pm

This how the classic Jewish children's book The adventures of K'tonton begins — his mother bites off the end of her husband's esrog and the thumb-sized boy was born within the year.

From the glossary in the back: "There is a folk superstition that a childless woman who bites off the tip of the Ethrog at the concludion of the [Sukkos] festival will be blessed with a male child."

pause

Fri, Oct 09 2020, 1:27 pm

Thanks for reminding me! I do it every year as a segulah for easy labors, just like I wash for melave malka every week - pregnant or not. I don't have easy labors and don't want to find out what they'd be like WITHOUT these segulos... So I do mine and leave the rest up to Him.

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