The proliferation of Segulahs and tricks to get your way with God is increasing daily.
The Yated (American Yeshivish news paper) has a Chinuch Roundtable where this issue was discussed. Almost to a man the Rabbis (one of whom is my father) warned of the danger in relying too heavily on these tricks.
Last time I linked to Parshablog it was for a similar reason and yesterday Parshablog had another disturbing example of this trend.
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