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How is a segula separate from using an intermediary? Because it doesnt explicitly say in Written Torah, unlike offerings and sacrifices that we should use segulot.

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my friend observed a wedding ceremony where the bride was holding a stained cloth in which the rabbi was talking about and he could not hear the purpose of this. I was wondering if you could tell me what this is, I have been to other ceremonies, but never observed this tradition.

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Is there ever an exception to the prohibition against hugging a member of the opposite sex when doing so is an act of chesed? Last week, I visited a not-orthodox woman who was sitting shiva for her husband who died suddenly and unexpectedly. She received few visitors and was feeling extremely broken and was desperately in need of a hug. There was no time to ask a rabbi. She needed it literally that very second. It just seemed like the right thing to do. I hugged her more than once over the course of my two-hour visit, once for several minutes, and these hugs brought her the comfort she so desperately needed at that moment. It maybe even saved her life, as one can die from a broken heart. Regardless, I couldn’t see myself saying no. Now I am feeling conflicted about what I did. Did I do the right thing?