theantijock saidUpon removing the tallit after my bar mitzvah, I was pretty much done with ritual.
Ritual is not superstitiion really.. I mean I can see they may be similar, but ritual is much more like ceremony or tradition, like a wedding recital, or lighting a christmas tree, or going to mass on sunday
Superstition is more like of a constant effect that is believed in, like: if you spill salt that's bad luck, to ward it off, throw salt over your left shoulder... or use salt to ward off evil... or knock on wood if you say something you wish doesnt come true...
I think a Jewish superstition may be the one where you sweep everything towards the middle of the room... in several other middle-eastern ones you must only enter the bathroom using the right foot...
sheesh, I know entirely too many of these