חתון MARRIAGE:

SECOND BOOK:

1. One who has difficulty finding his soulmate should say the Song at the Sea with concentration.

2. Kiddush Levanah (the Blessing over the New Moon) is a segula (conducive) to finding one's soulmate. A sign for this: The Hebrew word for moon – LiVaNA is the acronym for: "A virgin is married on Wednsday.".

3. By making a marriage to a Torah scholar, benefits and blessings come to a person.

4. By making a marriage to a Torah scholar, one is saved from the punishment that comes through giving advice to do evil against a friend.

5. Through making a marriage to a Torah scholar, through this worthy judges are appointed.

6. One who has difficulty in finding his soulmate should accustom himself to reciting the passages about the sacrifices of the Princes of the Twelve Tribes.

7. A proposed match which is spoken about, even though the actual match is not completed, this is also from Providence, and the proposal itself has an impact on him and her.

8. The shroud which is used to cover the face of the bride before the marriage rites has the power of fertility.

9. Through prayer, one can change his soulmate that was announced in Heaven.

10. One who is careful not to spend the night or to live in a house; two couples in one house, through this he merits to have son-in-laws who are Cohanim (priests) and/or very important.

11. When a man marries a woman after the death of his first wife, his first wife is anguished in the grave.

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.

שרים MINISTERS:

1. One who's wine is diluted with water, the officials do not deal with him in a straight manner.

2. One who does not judge his fellow favorably is as if he killed him. Also the officials do not deal with him in a straight manner.

3. Saying of Hallel and giving charity are a segula (conducive) to [having] favor in the eyes of the minister.

4. Through eating bread baked by a non-Jew, the forest is prohibited from cutting down its trees.

5. Due to four things, the property of householders is handed over to the government (monarchy). [1) Keeping a note of debt after it has been paid off; 2) Charging interest; 3) Remaining silent in a case where one should speak out against evil; and 4) Promising to make a donation in public and not carrying through.]

Eating - BOOK TWO

BOOK TWO:

1. One who [manifests] the Image of G-d, through eating something that had life (like meat or fish) elevates it (/he himself is elevated), and so the reverse—[one without that Image degrades that food/ himself).

2. Eating fish arouses sexual desire.

3. By saying Birkat HaMazon (the grace after the meal), the Blessed G-d becomes known in the world.

4. By saying Birkat HaMazon (grace after meal), the government is settled from strife and wars.

5. One who learns Torah with a clear mind, that his eating is so holy that he is nourished from the [same] food from which the angels are nourished, causes that his enemies be punished with strangulation. This is learned from Torah passages: "And it was on the third day, when it became morning…” (Shemot 19:16), "And in the morning there was a layer of dew…” (Shemot 16:13)" "And it was in the watch of the morning…” (Shemot 14:24)

[Rabbi Nosson states]: (“I heard an explanation of this article directly from his (Rabbi Nachman) holy mouth. For the (first) passage, "And it was on the third day, at the beginning of the morning…," was said in reference to the giving of the Torah, the aspect of what was said above, "One who learns with a pure mind..." The second quote, "And in the morning there was a layer of dew…," refers to the manna, which is the food by which the angels are nourished, as the Sages ob”m said. The third quote, "And it was in the watch of the morning…," refers to the splitting of the Red Sea, wherein the Egyptians were drowned in the sea, which is the aspect of strangulation, as the Sages ob”m said. Rabbi Nachman drew a connection between these passages through the word "morning" that appears in all three, through this he found the above hasaga in the Torah).

6. One who does not taste anything when he eats, should know that the Blessed G-d has separated Himself from him.

7. The eating of tzaddikim is higher than the sacrifices, and higher than their conjugal relations.

8. The fish are fat in the merit of the sacrifices.

9. One who was bitten by a dog, it is certain that the mercies of Heaven are removed from him, and it is also certain that he has erred with (eating) forbidden foods.

10. One who guards himself from forbidden foods, he is saved from wild animals.

11. One whose enemies are on the rise, he falls into the desires of food.

12. Through desires of food, one comes to love one of his children more than the others.

13. “Come eat my food (bread) and drink…” (Mishlei 9:5) -- the initials of the Hebrew words in this verse spell Lulav (palm branch taken on Succos). "…with wine…" with the four letters of the word, has the same gematria (numerical value) as the initials of Etrog, Hadas, Arava (citron, myrtle, willow). [The word] “Masachti—I mixed…” – is an aspect of Sukkot (in that the words share the same root letters). [Thus we derive that] through the mitzvah of taking the Four Species and through [dwelling in] the Sukkah, a man merits to have food, drink, and clothing, and also that his soul will receive life-force. Through the sukkah one merits to have clothing, an aspect of "When I placed clouds as his garment." (Iyov 38:9) Through the willow one merits drinking, through the myrtle one merits to vitalize the soul, and through the lulav and the etrog one merits eating, for they have fruits, which are types of food.

14. Food and drink come through law and justice.

15. That when a man drinks, he begins to sing and play music, which is not so with eating, is because they sang (praise to G-d) about the [miraculous] well, but they did not say songs of praise about the manna.