סְגֻולָּה בְּדוּקָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Proven Segulah

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)