What is the mainstream Jewish view of wearing the "red string"?
I know that it's a real custom among Jews (wrapping red string around Rachel's tomb while chanting prayers and then wearing the string as a sort of amulet), but what do most Jews think of it?
I'm not talking about the Kabbalah Centre. I already know that they're not Jews.
Er...thanks so much for being insulting.
Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism, and if it's a Kabbalistic practice, then, yes, it IS a Jewish practice.
I've never heard of Jews wearing red strings on their wrists outside of the Kabbalah Center people (who, as you rightly say, aren't Jews).
There's some old folk belief about the ayin hara (evil eye) and red string, but it's sort of nebulous as to wear it came from, as it's not from the TaNaKh, the Talmud, or any other religious texts.
I think the vast majority of Jews would see it as a nonsensical practice at best and idolatry at worst.
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