שנה SLEEP:

SECOND BOOK

1. One who has more holiness, he is further away from sleep.

2. Through excessive sleeping and slumber, one is pushed out of the Merkava of Holiness (t.n. the chair of the Divine Presence), one's face changes, and one's G-dly image is corrupted.

3. The fifteen Songs of Ascent that are in the book of Tehillim (Psalms chapters 120-134) are propitious to annul sleep.

4. One who is unable to sleep should bring to mind faith in the Resurrection.

אמונה faith - book two 10 -18

10. Someone who guards himself from transgressing "do not covet", through this, he is saved from anger and arrogance and from a lack of faith which comes through anger and arrogance.


11. By not making G-dliness known to the nations of the world, through this, the nations of the world incite and seduce Israel to follow superficial sciences.


12. Through spoiling of faith, judgments are aroused. And through thoughts of idol worship, judgments of judgments are aroused. That is, they judge the judgments that were judged already, as to whether they were judged properly and without leniency.


13. Bereavement of children comes, G-d forbid, to someone who cast down his fellow from faith.


14. A woman who is careful about challah [piece taken from dough] -- her children are faithful.


15. Through faith, the mind is settled.


16. Through Torah one comes to faith, and through faith, one comes to sanctify Hashem.


17. Someone who is not able to sleep, should arouse in his thought faith in the Resurrection of the Dead.


18. Those of little faith -- it is difficult for them to conceive original Torah ideas.

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.