What things can help remove curses?

Greetings,

A. This charm does not help against curses.

B.

1. First, one must know that one need not fear a baseless curse, as it is said in Proverbs (chapter 26, verse 2): As a bird wandering, as a swallow flying, so a baseless curse does not come, and according to the reading that is written lo in it, the Malbim and the Minchat Shai explained that the intention is that the curse returns to the curser himself.

And so they said in Tractate Sanhedrin (folio 48, end of page b, and folio 49a): People say, let one be cursed rather than be the one who curses, and Rashi explained: It is better for you to be among the cursed and not among the cursers, because in the end a baseless curse returns to the curser.

2. Immediately after you hear a curse, it is good to say, as the Pele Yoetz wrote (entry: curse): not so shall it be, but rather may he too be blessed, perhaps there is hope that no harm will befall.

3. We find in Tractate Gittin (folio 35a) that a certain woman cursed Rabba bar Rav Huna, turn over his chair, and her intention was that he should be brought down from his greatness, and in order that the curse not be fulfilled they turned over his chair and set it upright again.

And likewise in Tractate Bava Batra (folio 153a) a certain woman cursed Rava, let his ship sink, and in order that the curse not be fulfilled they washed Rava's garments in water (but that did not help there).

And based on these Gemarot, the book Orchot Yasharim wrote (chapter 10, section 9) that one who has been cursed should do something minor for the curse to be fulfilled in that, so that it not be fulfilled in something severe.

With good tidings,

Hillel Meirs