Guidance For Salvation

1. One who prays all day long will receive salvation.

2. One who always binds himself to awe of G-d, G-d will perform

miracles for him.

3. Ritual immersion revokes troubles and brings salvation.

4. The pouring out of one’s heart before G-d will be a source of

redemption and salvation.

5. By providing positive insights into the Torah, one can bring salvation.

6. By taking advice from a rabbi, one merits salvation.

7. By keeping distant from the wicked, G-d will perform a salvation for

you.

8. One who tries to persuade others to give charity increases salvation.

9. One who speaks in favor of the Jewish people arouses salvation,

and salvation will come through him.

10. Secluded meditation brings salvation.

11. By withstanding a test, one merits a miracle.

12. Charity brings salvation.

13. One who needs salvation should bring joy to the tzaddik.

14. Trust in G-d will merit you to understand that your salvation is from

G-d and not from man.

15. Humility brings salvation.

16. One who prays with joy will merit rejoicing in his salvation.

17. Miracles come through truth.

18. Miracle comes through awe.

19. One who proclaims G-d way too many will be saved by G-d even

when he is among non-Jews.

20. One who speaks no falsehood will be saved by G-d during his

distress, and will have children.

21. Falsehood delays salvation because falsehood reveals sins, so that

one is not saved.

22. It is proper for miracles to come without fanfare.

1. Looking at the tzitzith is conducive to healing the ill.

2. Bonding with the tzaddik is a source of great healing.

3. When an ill person prays for himself with tears, G-d will surely heal him and accept his prayers.

4. In the merit of visiting the ill, one will not die in pain.

5. By a deep study of Torah secrets, one can cause barren women to conceive and to heal serious illness.

6. Distributing charity is conducive of healing epilepsy (the acronym of Pizar Nathan La'evyonim [he gave distributions to the needy] is NePhe"L = epilepsy).

7. The monthly sanctification of the New Moon is conducive of healing those with weak eyesight.

8. The midnight vigil is conducive of healing those with weak eyesight.

9. Looking at an ethrog is healing for eye sores.

10. Salty foods are bad for leprosy, and fresh water is healing.

11. Every single herb has a unique healing power for some type of illness. However, this is only for someone who has not guarded his faithfulness and his covenant, and has not guarded himself from transgressing, "Do not scorn any person." But the healing of someone who has complete faith, who also guards the covenant, and does not scorn anyone, is not dependent upon the various herbs that have unique healing powers for his illness. Rather, he can be healed by any food or drink, as the verse says,  "G-d will bless your bread," and he does not have to wait until the appropriate herbs are found for his illness.

12. Charity is healing for all wounds.

13. Ritual immersion in the mikveh draws knowledge upon oneself, and one merits healing.

14. Reciting Psalms is conducive of healing the ill, but one must have firm trust in this, and through this, G-d will save and heal the ill one.

15. It is a great mitzvah to be in constant joy, and this can bring healing to all types of illness, for all illnesses arise from depression and melancholy.

16. The main healing of illness is only through spiritual redemption, and the Torah gave permission to a doctor to heal only after a spiritual redemption has been performed.

17. All illnesses are dependent upon the Torah, and the Torah was given to the sages. Thus, when we obey them without deviation, as we are commanded, all illnesses can be healed, even the most serious.

18. When a person really merits to pray, he can heal all illness even before it is discovered, and he will not become ill at all.

1. Saying, “G-d of the Hosts,” is conducive dispelling fear.

Remembering our forefathers. Abraham is conductive of dispelling fear.

3. The willow branches after use on Hoshanah Rabbah are conducive of dispelling fear.

4. The light of a candle is conducive to dispelling fear.

5. Trust will spare you from fear.

6. With charity you can dispel fear.

7. An intelligent person should not fear noise.

8. One who is frightened, even if one is not aware of the cause, one's soul is. Reciting the section of keriat shema will allay this. Or, one can say, "The goats at the slaughterhouse are fatter than me" (see Part II #17).

9. By envisioning the Divine Name, Elohim, before your eyes, fears will leave you.

10. One who obeys and observes Torah law will be spared from fear.

11. 310 immersions will dispel fear, but one should also give charity to a tzaddik.

12. By telling the truth, one is spared from fear at night.

13. With humility, you will have no fear.

14. Worry brings fear.

15. Fear brings on lies.

16. Bragging about wealth brings on fear.

17. Fear is caused by anger.

18. Worry and fear clog the heart.

19. By Torah study at the table during meals one is spared from fear.

20. One who flees from trouble is clever.

21. Do not travel the day after experiencing fear the night before during your sleep.

22. When there is peace, there is no fear.

23. A person must pass through this world on a narrow bridge, and the main thing is never to fear.

1. Faith is good for sustenance.

2. By giving to charity one merits sustenance.

3. The words of a tzaddik bring sustenance.

4. The speech of the wise brings wealth.

5. Anyone who possesses knowledge will eventually become wealthy.

community, he becomes wealthy.

6. When a new understanding comes to a person, this will surely bring in its wake a lot of money.

7. The incense makes wealthy.

8. As soon as a person is appointed a leader of the community, he becomes wealthy.

9. A mocker will lose part of his sustenance. 

10. Wealth does not endure because the wealthy do not have compassion for others.

11. Whoever overcomes the temptation of adultery will merit great

wealth amidst his enemies.

12. A person's sustenance is as hard to come by as the Splitting of the

Red Sea, harder than Redemption, and twice as hard as giving birth.

13. One should not be concerned that someone else will take away his

livelihood, because they will establish your position against their will,

and will call you by your name.

14. Moving and changing one's name are good for sustenance.

15. Faith increases sustenance.

16. Three things bring a person to poverty: urinating naked before

one's bed, making light of the ritual washing of the hands, and being

cursed by one's wife in one's presence.

17. Tithing is conducive of wealth, but only in the Land of Israel.

18. The measure of bitter herbs that we eat on Pesach is conducive of

sustenance.

19. Writing a Torah scroll is conducive of sustenance.

20. Associating with someone who is riding the tide of success is good

for one's own success.

21. One who loathes money will merit a long life.

22. One who has not rectified the sins of his youth will become

impoverished.

23. One who cannot find sustenance despite all his daylong efforts to

do so should try and bring others to repent.

25. One who acknowledges G-d in his troubles will have his sustenance

doubled, and his sustenance will fly high like a bird.

26. One who maintains his father's Torah scroll in his house will merit

wealth.

27. Poverty protects from the fate of Gehennom.

28. When one sees that one's sustenance is limited, one should give

charity from it.

29. Concern and worry over one's sustenance weakens one's strength.

30. Chastity is conducive to wealth.

31. By cheating others, one is impoverished.

32. One should always maintain one's forebears' inheritance, not

selling or trading it.

33. Sadness causes a loss of sustenance.

34. By giving to charity, one will have a generous amount of sustenance.

35. Oversleeping brings one to poverty.

36. By studying Torah and giving charity, one merits wealth.

37. Honoring one's wife brings wealth.

38. Blessings can be found in a home only if one respects one's wife.

39. One who lacks sustenance should study Torah and then pray for his

sustenance, and his prayer will certainly be accepted.

40. One should not sell one's first purchase.

41. For all things - for wisdom, wealth, or children - one must take some

natural measures and then pray that one's efforts be successful.

42. By awe and kindness one is saved from fire and will merit

sustenance.

43. By repentance, one's sustenance will come easily.

44. Sustenance is according to the sages of the generation.

45. Be honest business dealings, courses are annulled.

46. Giving money to the poor of the Land of Israel causes one's own

money to be maintained in one's possession.

47. When a new king or ruler rises to power, there will be a change in

sustenance.

48. One who endeavors to see to it that those who seek God have

sustenance will merit that his children do not conduct their lives

improperly.

49. Proper conduct at one's table will merit one with a portion in the

world to come, will merit one with sustenance, is recorded to his credit

in the highest worlds, will merit that his strength and power will be

increased when he needs it.

50. Sustenance is decreased because the observance of Torah law is

decreased, and vice versa.

51. One who recites words of Torah aloud will be saved from being

put to death by stoning.

52. One who acts hastily and mindlessly will become a debtor.

53. Torah, tithing, and the Shabbat enrich material life as well.

54. By guarding the covenant, one will obtain one's sustenance without

effort, like the manna.

55. By looking only to God and trusting in Him Alone, one creates a

vessel in which to receive the blessing of abundant sustenance

vessel in which to receive the blessing of abundant sustenance

whenever one needs it.

56. Anger harms one's sustenance. If one is tempted to become angry,

at that moment, an influx of money is about to be sent down to him from

heaven, and the evil inclination is trying to ruin this for him.

57. By virtue of praying fervently, one will have sustenance.

58. By observing the commandment of mezuzah, one's sustenance will come easily.

59. When the Jewish people guard themselves from eating non-kosher

foods, they will have sustenance.

60. If one is humble, no one will be able to deprive him of his

sustenance.

61. By rejoicing in the Torah and the commandments till one breaks out

to dance out of joy, one will be elevated financially.

62. By ritual immersion in the mikveh, one's sustenance will come

easily.

63. The greater one's knowledge, the easier one will obtain

sustenance, and the more one lacks knowledge, the harder one will

must work to obtain one's sustenance.

64. Sustenance is granted according to the level of one's prayer.

65. If one gives charity to a humble tzaddik, one will be immediately

blessed.

66. By giving charity, one's mind is elevated, and one will have

sustenance.

67. Giving charity rectifies one's money, which will endure in his

possession, and one will have bountiful sustenance.