Segulot

Ancient Jewish Practices for Luck, Love, and Abundance - 72 Segulot from the Talmud, the Zohar, and 3, 000 Years of TraditionFor three thousand years, Jewish tradition has quietly practiced something most of the world only discovered recently: that small, deliberate acts - a bite of fruit, a knotted red thread, a psalm recited at exactly the right hour - can open doors that willpower alone cannot.
They're called segulot. Until now, most of what's written about them has stayed locked inside Hebrew texts, academic footnotes, and communities that never expected an outsider to come looking. SEGULOT gathers 72 of these practices into one book, sourced from the Talmud, the Zohar, and rabbis whose names have been carried for centuries, and explains each one in plain English: the story behind it, where it comes from, exactly what to do, and a prayer you can say today.
Each entry includes the original Hebrew source with transliteration and translation, so you're never more than one page away from the tradition itself. Here's a taste of what's inside. The red string bracelet that made Madonna and Britney Spears famous for a summer? It comes from wool wound seven times around Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, and almost nobody who's ever worn one has heard about the seven knots tied into it, each one carrying its own meaning.
The mezuzah - the small case fixed to a Jewish doorframe in millions of homes. Ask most people what the word actually means, and they won't know it's the identical word the Torah uses for the doorposts marked with blood on the night of the first Passover. Nobody invented a new custom here. It's the same word, doing the same job, three thousand years later. And here's one that's hard to shake once you know it: there's a psalm about safety, said for centuries right before bed, and in three thousand years, across every version anyone has ever copied it into, it has never once contained the single Hebrew letter that spells the word weapon.
Coincidence? Kabbalists have never thought so. Organized into eight parts - money, love, children, protection, health, home, travel, and the deepest layer of Jewish mysticism - this is 72 practices across more than a hundred pages. This isn't a book of superstition dressed up as spirituality. Every practice is honestly sourced, and where tradition itself has argued about whether something is genuine or just folklore, this book says so.
You don't need to be Jewish to use it. You don't need any background at all. These practices were carried for centuries by people who shared them freely, and they're offered here in the same spirit. Thalassa Brooks spent years gathering these segulot from Talmudic tractates, Zoharic passages, and rabbinical sources spanning five centuries - not as an academic exercise, but because she needed them.
She offers them the way they came to her: with honesty, with wonder, and with the full weight of where they come from. Open to any page. Begin where you're drawn. Try something a little older than you are.