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• Question

  are there an worthwhile books on Graphology?

• gg

  Please make a lesson about homeopathy

• Zalman

  what was the rebbe’s position on treating emotional and mental disorders – such as depression, bi-polar etc. –

  I have heard he wasnt so pro meds etc – please clarify.

  also what was the rebbe’s position on hypnosis

  thank you very much – great class – I wish it was longer :)

• Lubab Graphologists

  There are three Lubavitcher who are experts in this field.
  Simcha Hellenger, Rocanne Perri, and Yaakov Rosenthal

• dovid

  ltova haklal, Please quote the scources of the letter and info that you bring so that it can be used fir future reference.

• like

  I never commented before but just want to say I enjoy your 10 minute tidbits very much! always an interesting topic, quick and to the point.

• London Lubavitcher

  I have had many years of experience in the field of graphology and it can be quite “frightening” just how much writing reveals about the writer. The main issue about graphology is the difficulty of making any form of measurements/scores. In addition, the analyst’s own opinion of “form level” that can alter the interpretation of similar features in major ways. To complicate matters, there may be reasons for specific features, not fully understood, that confuse the analyst.

  With all of the above issues, this means that any analysis must be viewed with caution – but markedly obvious aspects are likely to be on target.

  Over the years, working in the field of Banking and Insurance, I have used the techniques available from graphology to identify forgeries.

  I am a sofer in my spare time. My teacher in this area of expertise told me the following:

  When he was a young sofer (he uses the Galitzianer k’sav), a elderly sofer commented how nice his writing was. My teacher, who collected many samples of k’sav, showed him a beautiful parshah of tefillin and informed the elderly sofer that this could really be called beautiful.

  This elderly sofer then went on to explain that my teacher would not be able to write in the same way as his personality was entirely different from the writer of the parshah – he actually went on to elaborate in detail the specific personality features of my teacher – he had never met him before!

  As my finale, in my experience, those who completely deny graphology entirely, tend to prefer as little to be know about them at all – in fact, they tend to keep themselves to themselves – absolutely private. I guess that this is what their writing would show – but, of course, they won’t let me see any samples of their writing!

• Avraham Freinquel

  Yes!!! Please address the issue of Homeopathy

• Sandra

  What a fascinating talk about Graphology and its acceptance by the Rabbis. As a handwriting analyst myself, I would love to have seen the sample of the Alte Rebbe’s handwriting. From the brief analysis of the Rebbe’s handwriting it would seem that the the handwriting must have been quite unique.

  Graphic Insight

• Ephraim

  “As my finale, in my experience, those who completely deny graphology entirely, tend to prefer as little to be know about them at all – in fact, they tend to keep themselves to themselves – absolutely private.”

  Most people are like that. Do you know anybody who openly declares every aspect of their personality? Doesn’t the Torah extol modesty and privacy? How can you tell that these people are unusually private? Obviously by some method other than graphology. So you can elicit aspects of personality casually without recourse to graphology.

  I recall watching a graphologist demonstrate his art. He displayed a handwriting sample to the audience. I took a quick glance at the writing and whispered to the person sitting next to me, “He’s going to say that this person is very intelligent.” And so it was- the graphologist declared the writer to be very intelligent. How did I know? From the content of the writing.

  In any case, graphology has been around over 100 years. Yet, to date, there simply is no scientific evidence that graphology works. Study after study have demonstrated that graphology’s usefulness is minimal at best.

  Graphology is a million (billion?) dollar industry. They refuse to submit their practice to the rigors of science. Their speculations cause employers to reject job applicants and destroy shiduchim.