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When I was a kid,someone told me if I swallow my gum,all my insides would get glued together.People also said if a cat or dog follows you around,it’s a gilgul and just tell it you’re moichel it(“mochul loch” 3 times).When I told people I was afraid to get a computer (even though I write)because it would waste a lot of time,they told me I’m being silly…ahem…Here I am,doing what exactly??:)
If you eat watermelon pits you grow a watermelon tree in your stomach
“People also said if a cat or dog follows you around,it’s a gilgul and just tell it you’re moichel it”
I’m always saying that to pesky flies 🙂
If you are making a silly face and a Chicago style cold wind gust comes through, your face will be stuck like that forever!!
im not sure what people mean exactly by bubbe maasehs
and if they are using the term in a belittling way
some “bubbe maasehs” come from bubbes who had Kedusha no one here can even imagine.
the cat gilgul maaseh has sources.
i think we’ll change the title
If a cat was following me, I’d be pretty suspicious. Cats don’t usually follow strangers.
Now, if I had been feeding it…
Oh! Folk stories?
I believe in Hansel and Gretel, and in the three little pigs.
if you put powder around your bed at night, when you wake up you will see what looks like chicken feet prints….
Is it called superstitious? Whatever its called my mother was very into it! Definately the gum one! And the one where if someone stepped over you you would stop growing! The worst was if you walked in your socks C”V something terrible would happen. We would jump all over the house if we couldnt find our shoes I once took a step in my socks by mistake and i couldnt sleep that night i was so scared. But maybe that does have a source. I dont know.
If you drink havdala you get a hairy chest.
If my Aunt had a beard, she would be my uncle.
no sac- i heard it differently- if a girl drinks it they grow a beard!
Blinky i heard that one too! If you drink the Havdalah wine you grow a beard. And however high you hold the Havdalah candle thats how tall your chosson will be.
blinky
that explains it 😉
If you donate $18 to Vaad Hatzdokoh you’ll never wake up dead.
Sac
uh oh….do you have a beard? lol
Bestima and sac- there must be some basis of truth to it if a few ppl heard of it… i also heard of the havdala candle!
Imanonov lol!
Kupat Hair!!
You can’t go to the zoo if you are pregnant because you can only look at beautiful things.
PB
A very handsome one at that.
aries i know that is written somewhere dont remember where though
walking over a person
Sac
you may not want to boast about that. You may scare off WIY;-)
“You can’t go to the zoo if you are pregnant because you can only look at beautiful things. “
This is a great example of why we must keep mesorah, whether it makes sense or not!!
The actual saying, minhag, whatever you want to call it is, you shouldn’t look at animals, while pregnant. many seforim bring it down.
(Bronx zoo, Bronx ppl looking at zoo while pregnant, you get the picture)
now imagine someone said you should only look at pretty things, you’ll say they’re nuts, and go to the zoo. In reality the person was correct we shouldn’t go to the zoo, but the reasoning was incorrect. lesson learnt stick to mesorah, whether you understand it or not.
elipse do the 7 boys haveto be in a row? I have 7 boys and i think anyone who raises 7 boys whichever order they come in definately deserves to go straight to Gan Eden!!!
I think anyone who has 7 GIRLS should go straight to Gan Eden!
If you take the un-cut bilke from shaleshudos, pierce it with the knife you used to cut the bilke you ate at shaleshudos, place it under your pillow, wake up at midnight and look in the mirror, you’ll see the person you’re destine to marry.
Heard in Camp Mogen Av, back in the ’70s
That, and grasping your thumb with your other hand will protect you from the shaidim that were in the trees at night (the trees that lined the path from the shul to your bunk, where you needed to go to get your flashlight for night activity)
The mesorah of not looking at ugly things during pregnancy has its basis in the story of Yaakov Avinu and his flocks of sheep that gave birth to speckled, spotted, and ringed lambs when the mothers looked at the staffs that he carved in those designs when mating.
The not walking in socks goes to the halacha of an aveil not wearing shoes. So it is an ayin hara to walk in shoeless socks UNLESS one is sitting shiva. Bare feet are not the same problem.
I held the havdala candle at least six feet high every motzai Shabbos and STILL married a short guy. So there.
“if you put powder around your bed at night, when you wake up you will see what looks like chicken feet prints…. “
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Sacrilege
LOL! Im maskim!
Sacrilege anyone who raises 7 of anything deserves to go straight to Gan Eden!
i personally would NEVER walk over someone. i dont know why. but it was very important to my Bubby and thats good enough for me.
“I held the havdala candle at least six feet high every motzai Shabbos and STILL married a short guy”
So your saying I should get off the chair? 😉
BEST IMA
I just raised 7 fingers into the air. Thanks for the tip. 😉
“That, and grasping your thumb with your other hand will protect you from the shaidim that were in the trees at night”
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Best Ima is right.. raise 7 kids and you’ve already been thru gehenom!
BP
I know people who would gladly take that “Gehenom”.
WIY
Glad to see you rcovered
BPT
“raise 7 kids and you’ve already been thru gehenom”
*Gasp* I’m telling!
If you eat the crusts of your bread, you grow strong bones!
If you put your tooth under your pillow, you will find $ there the next morning!
BP Totty-
I know you were kidding, but that comment can kill somone who is still waiting for the bracha of children
How about, if you stand while you eat, you get fat feet? I dated a girl who did it all the time….she was a size 0(zero)!
I was afraid of that, but whats the alternative? Hide the fact that we have kids? Suppress each cute story we know of that pertaint to children? Or negate the fact that they are hard to raise?
I know how painful that topic is, and meant no harm. I sure hope none was taken.
mod 80 – did u hear if u walk over u have to walk back
anyone who posts regularly in the coffeeroom will never post while dead.
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