Proven Segulah (סְגֻולָּה בְּדוּקָה)

Proven Segulah

A remedy or trait whose effectiveness has been tested and found to be beneficial. Any kind of practice in medicine or something used 'against the evil eye'.

('I saw in an old manuscript book that our teacher Peretz, of blessed memory, wrote that on Shabbat, the holy names are a proven segulah for a woman in labor... However, this is an old dispute; Rambam holds that one does not transgress the commandments except for a cure that follows nature, not for something that works by segulah' - Chaim Sha'al, part 2, siman 38, and likewise: 'Go and give her some kind of remedy, a proven segulah, I say, that will help her with her illness' - Shalom Aleichem, Without the Evil Eye, 167, and likewise: 'And she would place in his pocket a small branch of "rude" and one garlic clove... unmistakable segulot against the "evil eye"' - Y. Burla, Longings, 63)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

סְגֻולָּה בְּדוּקָה

Definition (Hebrew)

תְּרוּפָה אוֹ תְּכוּנָה שֶׁנִּבְדְּקָה יְעִילוּתָהּ וְנִמְצְאָה מוֹעִילָה. מַעֲשֶׂה כָּלְשֶׁהוּ בִּתְחוּם הָרְפוּאוֹת אוֹ 'כְּנֶגֶד עַיִן הָרַע'.

("רָאִיתִי בַּסֵּפֶר כְּתִיבַת יָד יָשָׁן שְׁרָבֵינוּ פֶּרֶץ זַ"ל כָּתַב בְּשַׁבָּת שְׁמוֹת הַקֹּדֶשׁ סְגֻלָּה בְּדוּקָה לְיוֹשֶׁבֶת עַל הַמַּשְׁבֵּר... אָמְנָם זֶה מַחְלֹקֶת קָדוּם דהרמב"ם סוֹבֵר שֶׁאֵין עָבְרֵן עַל הַמִּצְווֹת אֶלָּא בִּרְפוּאָה שֶׁהִיא דֶּרֶךְ טֶבַע, לֹא בְּדָבָר שֶׁהוּא דֶּרֶךְ סְגֻלָּה"- שׁוּ"ת חַיִּים שָׁאַל חֵלֶק ב סִימָן לַח, וְכֵן:"קוּם וְתֵן לָהּ מִין רְפוּאָה, מִין סְגֻלָּה בְּדוּקָה,אֲנִי אוֹמֵר, שֶׁתּוֹעִיל לָהּ לְמַחֲלָתָהּ"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ בְּלֹא עַיִן הָרַע, קסז, וְכֵן:"וְכֵן הָיְתָה מַנִּיחָה בְּכִיסוֹ עָנָף קָטָן שֶׁל "רוֹדֶה" וְשֵׁן שׁוּם אַחַת...סְגֻלּוֹת מֻבְהָקוֹת כְּנֶגֶד "עַיִן הָרַע"- י.בּוּרְלָא/ כִּסּוּפִים, 63)

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