29. Through love for women, honor
is taken away from you. Also, your wife does not grasp the seed, and
miscarries, and at the time of birth, the child dies.
30.
Through strife comes thoughts of idol worship. Also, a house in which
there is strife will be a house of idol worship.
31. When
foreign thoughts come to a person, he should raise his voice as if he
were crying, and through this, the foreign thoughts will depart from
him.
32. Through oaths and curses come bad thoughts.
33.
Through having trust (in G-d), evil thoughts will not come to
you.
34. Grinding the teeth is conducive (segula)
to nullifying evil thoughts.
35. According to the place in
the prayer, so do the holy sparks clothe themselves in distractions
and come to a person in order to be rectified.
36.
[Learning] Tractate Yadayim (hands) is conducive (segula)
to nullifying bad thoughts.
37. Someone whose prayer is
only for the sake of the Divine Presence, will not have foreign
thoughts come to him.
38. Through peace, His Name, may He
be Blessed, is elevated.
39. When a man or woman thinks at
the time of marital relations about some non-Jewish man or woman, and
the thought is with love for that non-Jewish man or woman, then the
child who is born from these relations will abandon the Jewish
faith.
40. The ritual fringes are a fence (safeguard) for
lewdness.
41. Through visiting the sick, one is saved from
the evil inclination.
