שוחט BUTCHER:

SECOND BOOK:

1. Through (morally) upright butchers, people have mercy on each other, and the opposite is also true.

2. A butcher who fulfills (the commandment to) honor his father, the Holy One -Blessed is He- guards him from feeding people non-kosher meat, and the opposite is also true.

3. Due to wicked butchers who feed (i.e. distribute) non-kosher meat, robberies increase in the world.

4. Those with pure vision can see on the knives of the butchers the vessels of the Holy Temple.

5. Someone who becomes suddenly mute, a kosher butcher's knife should be passed over his mouth.

תשובה REPENTANCE: book one 94-101

94. By doing repentance out of fear, one's deliberate sins become as if they were inadvertent. By repenting out of love, they become like merits.

95. Repentance brings close the Redemption, and lengthens the days and the years of a man.

96. Through repentance of an individual, he is forgiven, and the whole entire world.

97. The Holy One – Blessed is He- is pacified by confession, and (the one who confesses) is as if he built an altar and offered a sacrifice.

98. One who is resilient in how people treat him, G-d overlooks all his sins.

99. The (learning of) Torah and doing acts of kindness atone.

100. Crying out and weeping in the night has more influence in arousing mercy (t.n. Elsewhere we learn that the arousal of mercy should be undertaken only in the second half of the night).

101. A ba'al tshuvah (someone who has returned in repentance) should pray for rain, and through this all his sins are atoned.

ממון MONEY: book one 102-104

102. A wealthy person is the aspect of male, and a pauper is the aspect of female.

103. Pain in the eyes is a sign of damage (t.n. In the glosses here there is reference to #84, and a suggestion that here should read, toothache, based on Talmud Nida 65a).

104. For all attainments, whether it be wisdom, wealth or children, one must engage according to the laws of nature, but ask for mercy from G-d, that he be successful in the matter of his engagement.

ממון MONEY: book one 1-9

1. One who ridicules -- his livelihood is diminished.

2. The speech (terminology) of the sages brings wealth.

3. Wealth does not endure, on account of not having mercy on people.

4. One who stands in a test of sexual immorality will merit to great wealth amidst his enemies.

5. Great is work, being that G-d warned about it, that a person should do some type of work.

6. [People weak] such as ourselves, should borrow in order to eat.

7. One who wants to become wealthy should deal in small animals (t.n. Like sheep and goats) in a remote location.

8. [The amount a person spends on] eating and drinking should be below his means, and he should dress and cover himself according to his means, and he should honor his wife and children beyond his means.

9. Poverty in a man's house is harder than fifty plagues (- like those of Egypt).

רחמנות MERCY: book two

SECOND BOOK:

1. Due to not asking mercy for one's friend, through this one falls into imprisonment. A repair for being imprisoned is to feed some animal.

2. Toothache comes through cruelty to animals.

3. A segula (conducive) to remove sadness – through mercy.

4. It is necessary to guard one's self from causing animals pain, for it will harm him.

רחמנות MERCY: book one

1. One who has mercy on the poor, merits to see the comfort of G-d, may He be blessed.

2. Also, he will always win.

3. When there is no mercy, hunger comes to the world.

4. Also, thievery increases.

5. One who prays with force merits to have mercy on the poor.

6. One who does not have mercy goes insane.

7. One who pays back good for evil, increases his length of days and years.

8. Through having mercy, your base desires are annulled.

9. When you see that your brother is in pain, and you do not help him, it is as if you did the harm.

10. One who sees his friend in pain must ask for mercy on his behalf.

11. Through asking for mercy, one merits to make marital matches which are good and honorable.

12. One who judges people favorably merits receiving the festivals appropriately.

לימוד learning BOOK TWO 8-17

8. A teacher who teaches his students in this manner -- that is, he only teaches to each student what he specifically needs to hear, not more and not less. Through this he merits that the most pleasant and praiseworthy aspects of the Torah are revealed to him.

9. When a student hears words of Torah from a rabbi, and annuls his will to the will of the rabbi, according to this you can be sure that he listened. For when he does not annul his will, even though he hears, he really does not hear. Also, when his feelings (-senses) are annulled at the time of hearing, this is a sign that he has truly heard.

10. At the time when a student comes to hear Torah from a rabbi, the student's evil -- that is, the impure husks (klipos) created by the evil in him, also come to hear and draw from it. However, when each student hears only what is relevant to his soul, as was described above, the evil spirits (klipos) flee, and are not able to hear. Yet there is a subtle evil (klipa) which is close to holiness, that will only flee when there is within the Torah teaching a message of salvation of Israel, then it also flees. A hint for this from Scripture: "And Moshe sent his father-in-law" -- if one learns this passage according to the opinion that Yitro (the father-in-law of Moses) came and went his way before the giving of the Torah.

11. One who utters words of Torah is saved from the sentence of stoning.

12. A man cannot merit to Torah and good deeds in all places. Due to this, G-d brings about circumstances that cause the man to go from one place to another place.

13. When a man learns until he is exhausted, he sweetens judgments and arouses mercy. Also through this he arouses mercy for his father in the grave.

14. Through Torah, one comes to Faith, and through Faith, one comes to sanctify the Name of G-d.

15. Those with pure eyesight can recognize in a man, who is the rabbi who taught him Torah. This is specifically when the one looking is familiar with the face of the rabbi. For through the religious law that a man learns from his rabbi, his face becomes similar to the appearance of the face of the rabbi, for the law is his wisdom that enlightens the face of a man (as in the verse, "The wisdom of man enlightens his face.") When one receives the law, one receives an aspect of the appearance of the teacher's face. And according to the amount of laws he learns, the more aspects of the appearance of his face are acquired.

16. Through sanctifying the name of G-d, may He be blessed, the authority of the leaders of the generation is in full force and strength. Through this, everyone values the commandment of hospitality to guests, and through this, the Torah students merit that the law is set according to their opinion.

17. One who is strict with others and lenient with himself, and says about what he did not hear, that he heard, due to this, he does not merit to see the beauty of the King. For the evil force (klipa) of Edom, which is negative fear, darkens the light of his eyes, so that he cannot see the beauty of the Face of the King.

דעת COGNIZANCE (da'as): book one 26-34

26. When a certain understanding is revealed to a person, it is certain that he will soon be raised some height.

27. When one repents with all his heart, G-d grants his heart to know His desire and will.

28. One who has not rectified his sins, cannot have a relationship with G-d (/know G-d).

29. Through truth, you merit to know the ways of G-d.

30. Also through hosting guests.

31. When you do kindness of truth (/truthful kindness) to the righteous, you merit to know that all the ways -- of prayer, of eating, and of all the other pleasures -- are all the Way of G-d.

32. Through joyous singing, one will be a cognizant person.

33. One who is repaid with evil for the good he did, the Holy One, Blessed is He, has mercy on him and grants him great intelligence in the service of the Creator.

34. According to the measure a man increases doing good deeds, so the Holy One, blessed is He, deepens his intelligence, that is, he gives him a great mind.

דעת COGNIZANCE (da'as): book one 1-10

1. Sometimes G-d brings things upon a person, so that through them the person will understand His mercy and G-dliness.

2. Someone whose mind is confused should frequently say the prayer of Habakuk

3. Also (for a confused mind), it is a segulah to learn "Sifte Cohen” (Cohen's Lips – commentary on the Shulchan Aruch – Code of Jewish Law), also eating wheat.

4. People's food conceive character in a person according to their (the food's) character.

5. The taste of wheat brings cognizance (da'as) to man.

6. Wine and fragrance tune up one's cognizance.

7. Dissension causes the mind to be unsettled.

8. A person suffers more from what he sees with his eyes than the pain that he feels from information.

9. One who engages in the study of Torah and doing of kindness merits understanding.

10. Through eating bread in the morning (pas shacharis), one becomes wise.

פדיון שבויים REDEEMING PRISONERS book two

SECOND PART:

1. Through lewdness, one falls into incarceration or foot pain sickness. Also, a student who had not reached the level of delivering a halachic directive, yet prescribes, falls into this. Also, damaging spirits rule over (/afflict) him.


2. Charity is a segula (conductive) to nullifying all of those punishments.


3. Due to not requesting compassion on behalf of one's friend, as a result, one falls into incarceration. And a remedy for incarceration is to support some living creature.


4. Through having marital relations on days on which such relations are forbidden, through this one falls into incarceration.


5. When one of the children of Israel falls into incarceration, as a result, according to his aspect, the wellsprings of wisdom are sealed up from the wise of the generation, and the opposite is true when he is freed from incarceration.


6. Sometimes, through incarceration, one is saved from loss of children.


7. Through lushon hura (slander), one becomes incarcerated.


8. The hairs that grow on a person and the clothes on a person at the time that he sits in captivity, an ugly spirit rests upon them which makes a person ugly and degraded.


9. Making an effort to free prisoners is a segula (conducive) for child-bearing.


10. Someone who is involved in freeing prisoners, through this, the great ones of the generation are included in him.

פדיון שבויים REDEEMING PRISONERS book one

book one

1. Through haughtiness of the heart, one falls into incarceration.


2. One who agrees with the non-Jews falls into their hands. Rather, one should contradict all of their words.


3. Someone who says a statement in the name of the one who said it (originator), brings redemption to the world.


4. Through redeeming prisoners, the redeemer's dispersed are gathered.


5. Someone who does not leave his house is considered as if incarcerated.


6. Through the sin of homosexuality, one becomes incarcerated.


7. Someone who has mercy on prisoners, the Holy One, Blessed be He, saves him from death.


8. Someone who is incarcerated, it is certain that his soul above is also incarcerated.


9. Someone who comes to the Tzadik and asks the Tzadik advice, and afterwards violates his advice, as a result, he becomes incarcerated.


10. One who feeds bread to the hungry, the Holy One, Blessed be He, saves him from the jailhouse.


11. One who did not fix the sins of his youth, as a result, he goes to the jail house.


12. Someone who is accustomed to performing circumcisions, or providing for the expenses of the circumcision feast for a poor person, through this, he is saved from the jail house.

הרהורים THOUGHTS book one 16-28

16. Through anger comes thoughts of idol worship.


17. When one disparages the Festival holy days, he comes to (having) thoughts of idol worship.


18. One who sits among lewd people or in a place where there was lewdness, through this, he comes to evil thoughts.


19. The evil inclination only craves something forbidden to him.


20. Lusts -- the loving-kindness of Hashem, may He be Blessed, is clothed in them.


21. Through pardoning of sins, you merit a clean heart.


22. Through compassion, lusts will be nullified from you.


23. Through the eyes, the heart craves.


24. Through the lusts of the heart, it is impossible that something [impure] will not cling to you.


25. Regarding thoughts of promiscuity, it is conducive to drink a laxative.


26. Prayer with heartfelt concentration opens all the openings Above.


27. Someone who has thoughts of idol worship should not carry with him any gold.


28. Through drunkenness, thoughts of idolatry come.

Depression - BOOK TWO

BOOK TWO:

1. Depression [fills] the heart of a man when he becomes aware of his own evil (/bad fortune). For the heart causes all of this, because the heart is the cause of everything; for good or for bad (lit. the opposite).

2. One must guard himself from depression in order that he not come to mourning, G-d forbid.

3. Through suffering and sadness, conflict comes into the world. Conversely, through joy, peace comes to the world.

4. Through the spoiling of one's joy, sicknesses come upon him.

5. It is a segulah to remove depression through mercy.

6. Vows and pledges bring happiness.

Distancing the Wicked

הרחקת רשעים HARCHUKAS RISHUIM - AVOIDING THE WICKED:

BOOK ONE

1. When a tzaddik comes to the house of a wicked person, the house is blessed, but this is only when the house is fit to receive blessing.

2. Keep far away from the wicked, so that you will not be caught up in their punishment.

3. Due to enmity, one may come to display friendliness to the wicked.

4. Sometimes, when one does a favor for a totally wicked person, it gives satisfaction to the Holy Blessed One.

5. It is forbidden to relate their praise (evildoers). However, in a case in which praising them will also result in praise for a tzaddik, it is permitted to relate a little.

6. One who judges a wicked one favorably is also called wicked.

7. Even when an evildoer does some act according to the religious law, we do not depend on him.

8. One who was a guarantor for an evildoer, falls into sexual lust, and also becomes weak.

9. An evildoer who has forgotten G-d completely, it is certain that no upright descendants will issue forth from him.

10. When an enemy of G-d fall into your hands, do not have mercy on him.

11. When you do not attach yourself to liars, that are known to you, through this you will merit to discern the hypocrites.

12. One who hates enticers (missionaries), their words will certainly have no influence (literally - stick) on him.

13. Through learning Torah, distance is created between the wicked who are drawing close.

14. One who distances himself from the wicked, the Holy Blessed One brings him a salvation.

15. The scattering of the wicked from each other is a sign of salvation.

16. Avoid living in a house in which an evildoer lived.

17. Do not speak to enticers (missionaries), even to chastise them or bring them close (to repent).

18. Associating with the wicked is damaging to the service of G-d.

19. It is appropriate and fitting for the holy servants of G-d to make a screen and shield, to the point that every afflicting and evil person will flee from it.