Popa, I would definitely agree that that would be far more powerful, but it’s still very possible that thinking of someone else’s needs, even when your own are so pressing, is still a segulah along the same lines.
Yes, but why? Isn’t it because you are being selfless and prioritizes someone else’s needs ahead of your own, so Hashem prioritizes your needs?
So then if your real goal was to prioritize your needs, and you were just told that this is the best way to do it so this is how you’re doing it–does that still work?
I mean, aren’t you basically taking the gemara’s message, which is “be selfless and care about other people” and using it to promote your own needs?
Ubiquitin: I take your question well, but your answer doesn’t work for me. Why can’t the gemara’s message just be that the way Hashem works is that He wants you to prioritize other people’s needs above your own?
Also, DY should link the old thread about this, eventually.