Author Topic: Source for minhag for babies not to look in a mirror  (Read 3590 times)

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Re: Source for minhag for babies not to look in a mirror
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2016, 06:16:38 AM »
She probably learnt this minhag at home. No?
Even if the verbal chain this was heard from is reliable, it not necessarily means it's from home. Quick googling shows it has its basis as a old Russian superstition

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Re: Source for minhag for babies not to look in a mirror
« Reply #21 on: April 27, 2016, 07:56:18 AM »
Even if the verbal chain this was heard from is reliable, it not necessarily means it's from home. Quick googling shows it has its basis as a old Russian superstition
Many of the items in this page have sources in shas, R Yehuda hachosid and poskim
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_traditions_and_superstitions