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1. When a tzaddik accepts money from a wicked person, even if the money is possibly stolen, it is permitted for the tzaddik to accept it, so that the wicked one will not accept upon himself some wicked scholar, and claim that the scholar is a tzaddik, and give him his money, and the scholar will stand in opposition to the True Tzaddik.

2. Since the proliferation of those who accept gifts, the days have become diminished and the years shortened.

3. If you have benefited from a man even once, do not humiliate him.

4. One who intensifies the burden upon the Jewish people, in the end will be needy of others.

5. One who does favors for others, it is permitted for him to benefit from them, and they ought to serve him.

6. Through the benefit you receive from your fellow man, you suffer pain due to his sins. 7. One who does not accept money from others, all his descendants will prosper.

8. The King funds his expenditures from the people.

9. One must be involved in some form of business, in order that he not be compelled in the end to abandon the study of the Torah.

11. One who expects to eat from his friend's table, his world is darkened, and his life is not considered life.

12. One who has a soul, he is able to enjoy scent.

SECOND BOOK:

1. Great is benefiting from the work of one's own hands, for it saves man from murder. 2. One who hates accepting gifts need not fear from curses.

DEPRESSION:

1. Someone who has not repaired the sins of his youth, worries come upon him. 2. For the most part, suffering comes to a man through his speech.

3. When you have suffering, speak about it.

4. Through a worried heart, fear of death falls upon one. 5. Through submission, evil and sorrow are annulled.

6. One who is depressed should look upon the tzaddikim, and his heart will become joyful.

7. Entering into the house of a non-Jew causes depression. 8. Through depression one becomes weakened.

9. Through a bad heart, one's face is transformed.

10. When you have anguish on a day of joy, and all your happiness is dispelled, know that your ancestral merit has been exhausted.

11. Someone who is depressed should give continuing gifts to a tzaddik. 12. Through depression come fires.

13. Depression is a sign that some disease is ready to befall one. 14. Due to depression, G-d withdraws Himself from a person.

15. Through depression, one comes to a forbidden seminal emission. 16. Depression comes through anger.

17. Through depression, a person does not reach his aspiration. 18. Due to depression, one becomes shamed.

19. Due to weeping, a person is unable to eat.

20. One who is not depressed, and is always joyful, will certainly be raised high. 21. Through depression comes humiliation.

22. Crying is a positive sign for a sick person. 23. Through anguish, one's enemies are exalted. 24. Through anguish comes heart pain.

25. One who constantly hurries is prone to depression. 26. Drawing close to tzaddikim makes the heart joyous.

27. A segulah for removing depression is to listen to an honored tzaddik when he plays music.

28. One who does not confess his sins, sighing and worries come upon him.

29. When a person lusts after things that are against the will of G-d, sighing comes upon him.

30. Sadness due to a bad dream annuls the influence of the dream, preventing it from coming to pass.

31. Voice, appearance and odor restore a person's healthy outlook. 32. Through screaming, one's pain is annulled.

33. One who is depressed brings suffering upon himself.

34. One who sinks too far into his own suffering, his suffering intensifies. 35. Dates annul worry.

36. Aggadah (Talmudic legends) bring joy to a man.

SECOND BOOK:

1. Depression is in the heart of a man, when he feels his evil. For the heart is the (mesev?) of all this, for the heart causes all a person's deeds, whether for good or for the opposite.

2. One must guard oneself from depression, in order that one 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 damage of one's joy, sicknesses come upon him. 5. It is a segulah to remove depression through mercifulness. 6. Vows and pledges bring happiness.

DESCENT:

1. Sometimes, a man descends from his level in his old age. 2. Through collecting taxes, a man falls from his level. 3. Through jealousy one falls from his level.

4. Due to jealousy, a person does not have consistency. Sometimes he prays with enthusiasm and learns with stability, and other times, the prayer and learning are a burden to him.

5. One who is constricted in his speech -- and certainly, he is in need of smooth speech to express what he needs -- but one who is nevertheless constricted in his speech, it is certain that his livelihood has been curtailed, and he is in need of great kindness and salvation, namely that G-d should grant him his livelihood.

6. When a person takes an oath, his longings can be recognized (alternate version -- his longings are cut off).

7. When a man slips and falls, this is because he had girded himself to commit a sin. 8. When one takes upon himself to fulfill some commandment, and he begins with all his heart, he will be successful in fulfilling it, and no harm will come to him from it.

9. One who falls from his awe of G-d, it is certain that his awe was not pure. 10. A person descends due to lust for money.

11. If one guards oneself from stealing, oaths and falsehood, he will not fall from his level.

12. When a man prays in a minyan, and among them are wicked people, they sometimes cause him to sink. A segulah against this, is to raise one's hands during the prayer.

13. One whose heart loses its enthusiasm, it is because he hates the Tzaddik. 14. The Tzaddik who truly rules the world will never fall from his importance.

15. One who flees from honor, and the honor pursues him, he will certainly not descend from or lose his honor.

16. Through attachment to tzaddikim, one will not fall from one's level.

SECOND BOOK:

1. One who falls in the course of walking should know that the angels appointed to guard him have deserted him.

2. One who has sexual desires for a woman from an idolatrous society, it is certain that he will have a descent.

3. Or some sickness will come upon his wife and children.