תשובה REPENTANCE: book one 21-27

21. When two mitzvos (commandments/good deeds) come to your hands, do that mitzva that demands greater restraint of your desires.

22. It is necessary to fast when causing suffering to the Tzaddik.

23. Pain in the heart is close to shedding tears.

24. One who brings others back in repentance merits to sit in the Yeshiva Above, and the Holy One, Blessed is He, annuls a harsh decree for him.

25. A person's despondence is greater than a fast.

26. One who does a sin and then regrets it, all his sins are forgiven.

27. One who does business dealings faithfully, all his sins are forgiven.

ממון MONEY: book two 28-29

28. One whose merchandise and estates are scattered, and not in one place -- sometimes he is saved through this from having to tear his garments for his deceased.

29. The largest businessman in a city is the light (lit. candle) of the city.

ממון MONEY: book two 22-27

22. Traveling (lit. thoroughfares) brings a person to lushon hura (evil speech), idol worship, promiscuity, and spilling blood (i.e. murder), and these sins detract one's livelihood.

23. Through the money one gives to the poor of the Land of Israel, through this one's money is preserved in his keeping.

24. Fires (lit. burning) come to the world on account of money used for idol worship, to destroy it.

25. When a new king or a new minister arises, livelihood is renewed and undergoes change.

26. One who has dealings and business with non-Jews at the time of their festivals, or even not at the time of their festivals – but his revenue is from supplying things for their idolatry, through this his wife has bleeding shortly after her ritual immersion.

27. One who makes a separation between a man and his wife -- that is, he goes to the man and praises his wife to him, but goes to the wife and defames the husband in her eyes, until a separation is created between them -- he becomes troubled (-preoccupied, overtaken) by his expenses (for food or sustenance).

ממון MONEY: book two 16-21

16. One who lends on interest cannot find anyone to judge him favorably.

17. One who guards himself from transgressing the command not to envy, through this he is saved from anger, arrogance, and lack of faith that comes in the wake of anger and arrogance.

18. Through faithful business conduct, curses are annulled.

19. One who needs to borrow from others, he is comparable to an animal.

20. Someone who is a middleman, when he wants to intercede, in order that an important man will buy an item from a common man, and he sees that his words are not being accepted by the common man - to sell the item to the important man, in that case the broker should pray that his words have effect on the common man, and he will sell to the important man.

21. One who controls his evil inclination, his children will not become delinquent (/involved with bad society or culture). Through this his money will be blessed, and through this he will not come to be tested.

ממון MONEY: book two 1-6

SECOND BOOK:

1. A year which is a year of business is a good sign for physical health.

2. One who is passionate about working the land, comes to one of three things, either, spilling blood (i.e. murder), or leprosy, or drunkenness.

3. Through fear (of Heaven) and kindness, one is saved from fire, and merits a livelihood.

4. When Torah arbitration decreases, through this income decreases, and so too the opposite.

5. Through the finding of Torah sources for Rabbinic traditions, large income is delivered (/emanated) into the world. This is because there are various things that we don't find a reference to them in the Scriptures of the Torah, and the Sages of blessed memory labored to find them some sort of basis.

6. Sometimes G-d brags about the upright of the nations in front of the Satan, so that He can give livelihood to Israel without accusation.

נדה MENSTRUAL IMPURITY:

BOOK ONE

1. A woman who bleeds abundantly is an excessive talker. She should not beautify herself in people's eyes, also she should wash in spring water, also she should not exert herself excessively. Also, her husband should be careful with ritual hand washing. Also, she should not get angry. Also, after her immersion she should give charity. Also her husband should learn the tractate Nidah (Menstrual Impurity), and afterwards recite the Song for the Day (every day of the week has a different Psalm). Also, she should wash herself with things that can be raised from nets in the river. Also, she should drink goats' milk. Also, she should wash herself using goat feathers, and smoke herself in frankincense.

2. A woman who is oozing blood should write the letters lo echad (not one), and carry it on her.

3. A woman who is immodest, through this she does not have a set time for her period and bleeds abundantly.

4. A woman in her time of impurity, who saw blood by chance, it is because of a sin of the husband.

SECOND BOOK:

1. A woman who does not have a period should fast.

2. A segula (conducive) to restore to a woman her period, is through hospitality.

3. One whose business and dealings are with the non-Jewish nations at the time of their festivals -- or even not at that time, but he derives an income from supplying them with articles to be used for their idol worship -- through this, his wife bleeds immediately following her immersion.

אמונה Faith - book one - 43 - 53

43. Jerusalem will only be redeemed through charity.


44. War is the beginning of the redemption.


45. Someone who raises pigs, he holds back the redemption.


46. Jerusalem will not be rebuilt until there is peace among Israel.


47. The fact that Israel goes in exile from nation to nation is a sign that the Messiah will come.


48. When the nations exceedingly disgrace us, this is a sign of the Messiah.


49. The Holy Temple will not be built until arrogance ceases.


50. Through the unity that will exist in Israel, the Messiah will come.


51. The Messiah will come in a year of blessing.


52. The Messiah will not come until all the souls have left the [supernal] body.


53. Someone who marries off his daughter to a Torah scholar, gives him to benefit from his wealth, and does business for a Torah scholar, merits the Resurrection of the Dead.

נהנה מאחרים ACCEPTING BENEFIT FROM OTHERS: - book one

נהנה מאחרים ACCEPTING BENEFIT FROM OTHERS:

BOOK ONE

1. When a tzaddik accepts money from a wicked person, even if the money is possibly stolen, it is permitted for the tzaddik to accept it, so that the wicked one will not take on some wicked Torah scholar, claiming that the scholar is a tzaddik, giving him the money, and he will oppose the True Tzaddik.

2. Since the proliferation of those who accept gifts, days have become diminished and years shortened.

3. A person who you received benefit from one time - do not humiliate him.

4. One who weighs his clout on the Jewish people ends up being needy of others.

5. One who does favors for others is permitted to benefit from them, and they ought to serve him.

6. Through the benefit you receive from your fellow man, through this you suffer pain due to his sins.

7. One who does not accept money from others, will raise all his seed (the Hebrew word for raise or bring up, can also mean will make great).

8. The King funds his expenditures from the people.

9. One must be involved in some form of business, in order that ultimately he will not need arrest the study of (lit. words of) Torah.

10. One who asks for his portion verbally is as if he had stolen.

11. One who is reliant on his friend's table, his world is darkened, and his life is not considered life.

12. One who has a neshamah (Jewish soul) is able to enjoy from smell.

קללה CURSE - BOOK TWO

BOOK TWO:

1. A man who is accustomed to curse is from the World of Disorder, and conversely, one accustomed to blessing is from the World of Repair.

2. Investigating the World of Disorder, that is to say, speculating about what is Above and what is Below, etc., draws down curse; one who restrains himself from these investigations causes blessing.

3. One accustomed to curse through this he will not have clothes for Shabbat.

4. The power of a curse do not have effect on one with [an honored] lineage.

5. Through serving the Tzaddik comes freedom and curses are annulled.

6. Through conducting business faithfully, curses are annulled.

7. When a man curses his fellow during a time of dread, the curse is very damaging to him.