Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

קרי WANTON EMISSION OF SEED (unintentional, unless otherwise stated): BOOK ONE: 5-10 (end)


5. A person should not eat at the table of a tzaddik before he has immersed (in a mikva to purify himself) from his emissions.

6. Rejoice in the good that comes upon the tzaddikim, and this is a rectification for emissions.

7. Through mockery, comes the impurity of wanton emission.

8. Wanton emission comes from lightheadedness.

9. Wanton emission comes as a result of eating garlic and eggs.

10. Also as a result of pointless speech and foul language.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

אהבה LOVE: book one


1. When there is no love between people, they go about gossiping. Through gossip, they come to mockery, and through mockery, they speak falsehood.

2. Through hatred comes upheaval, and through hatred come fires (lit: things get burned).

3. Through the love of the L-rd, may He be blessed, the soul is guarded from all evil calamities.

4. If you first repent from your sins, you can come to love of the L-rd, Blessed be He.

5. One who prays with self-sacrifice for the people of Israel is loved by all.

6. Through love, one is strengthened.

7. If you strengthen a person in his service of G-d, blessed-be-He, he will love you.

8. Through saying Hallel in a loud voice, one merits to love of G-d, blessed-be-He.

9. If you will be careful to avoid needless hatred, then when you have a legal case with a strongman who isn't willing to settle with you, through this he will settle with you.

10. One who is careful to avoid making a false oath, he certainly will not transgress the commandments not to take revenge and not to bear a grudge.

11. Garlic is conducive (segula) to love.

12. One who serves out of love -- his merit protects for two thousand generations.

13. In the place where an agreement or a covenant is made, the L-rd, blessed is He, is present there.


Monday, October 29, 2012

קנאה JEALOUSY:



ספר המידות - ערך קנאה
א. כשיתבטל הקנאה, אזי יהיה קבוץ גלויות:
1. When jealousy will be annulled, the Ingathering of the Exiles will take place.
ב. על ידי קנאה בא שרפה:


2. Through jealousy come fires (burning).
ג. על ידי קנאה בא שפיכות דמים:
3. Through jealousy comes bloodshed.
ד. על ידי קנאה בממון חברו נעשה שוטה:

4. Through coveting the money of one's fellow, one becomes a fool.
ה. על ידי ביאתך לצדיק יתבטל ממך הקנאה:

5. Through your coming to a tzaddik, your jealousy will be annulled.
ו. על ידי קנאה עצמותיו מרקיבין:

6. Through jealousy, one's bones rot.
ז. השום מוציא קנאה:


7. Garlic expels jealousy.
ח. דפרע קנאה מחריב ביתו:
8. One who takes revenge out of jealousy destroys his household.
ט. על ידי קנאה בא תשישות כח:

9. Through jealousy comes a weakening of strength.