Superstitions and popular beliefs in Judaism

^{This book written by Yerahmiel Barylka entitled Superstitions and popular beliefs in Judaism deals with numerous aspects of human behavior that would tend to contradict the thesis according to which man is a rational being. On the contrary, it shows how our life in its different spheres (psychological, social, cultural) is constantly infiltrated by irrationality. Beliefs, fears, assumptions and superstitions engender all sorts of behaviors and practices related to our health, our good or bad fortune, the risks we could take (and what could protect us), the favors we could obtain from divinity, of occult powers and even of the dead. Behaviors widely collected by anthropologists in so-called "primitive" societies, and yet subsist with renewed boom in our "advanced" societies in the XXI century.}