1. A woman who eats radishes while in pregnancy will have difficulties in childbirth. 2. A woman having difficulty in childbirth, it is conducive to give her water to drink from seven wells.
3. Also, her children should not be with her in the house.
4. Whisper the letters of the name Sag (one of the names of G-d from the Kabbalah) in her ear.
5. Also, her bed should not be aligned toward the west or the south.
6. Also, adorn her neck with the bitter herbs that were left over (from Passover).
7. Also, whisper the letters Pey-Aleph, Vav-Aleph-Vav, Ayin-Yud-Nun, Hey-Aleph (These are the full spellings of the four letters Pey, Vav, Ayin and Hey, which in their simple form spell Puah, who was one of the two midwives that assisted Jewish mothers in Egypt while giving birth.)
DREAM:
2. Upon having a good dream, say in a tone of wonderment, "Could it be that dreams are only vanity, when it is written 'In a dream I speak to him (Bamidbar, 12:6, in which G-d distinguishes His manner of communicating with Moshe from His communication with all the other prophets).' "
3. One who conducts himself modestly in the toilet facilities, his dreams are composed. 4. Through speaking disparagingly about some tzaddik who has passed away, a person will have fearsome dreams.
5. One who has frightening dreams, it is a sign that his son or student will burn the food he is cooking in public (check translation).
SECOND BOOK:
1. One who wants his dreams to be realized, should write them in a notebook, along with the day, the time and the place where he dreamed them.
DRUNKENNESS:
1. Through drunkenness, one falls from one's level.
2. Through drinking wine, one comes in the end to accept bribes. 3. Drunkenness brings one to deny the truth, and to testify to falsehood. 4. G-d loves one who never gets drunk.
5. Oil annuls drunkenness.
6. Vision is particularly powerful in causing drunkenness. 7. Through drunkenness, one falls into sexual imaginations.
8. One who is drunk does not have the power to sweeten harsh judgments. 9. One should not reveal secrets of the Torah to one who is drunk.
10. Wine and the spice of frankincense together maddens a person.
SECOND BOOK:
1. One who has enthusiasm for working the land comes to one of three things: 1) Shedding blood, 2) Leprosy, or 3) Drunkenness.
3. It is impossible that drunkenness will not lead someone to some mishap.
4. Through drunkenness, one forgets the warnings of Moshe Rabbeinu. For Moshe is enveloped in the 248 limbs of a person, and each limb warns a person with regard to the commandments connected to it. Because of this Moshe was called Mechokek (one who lays down the law), which has the gematria of 248.
5. Through drunkenness, one removes the veil of kindness covering the mind, and covers it instead with harsh judgmental forces, G-d forbid.
6. One who has enemies should avoid wine, and through this he will become a leader to them.
EATING:
1. When you eat, you should leave a portion, so that the blessing of G-d may fall on your food.
2. The table of a man purifies him from all his sins.
3. The table of a man helps him merit the World to Come, and an income, and he is inscribed for good in the highest heights, and he merits additional strength and might in the time when he needs it.
4. Due to the sins perverting justice, distortion and destroying of justice and neglect of Torah, drought comes, and people eat without being satiated, and eat their bread in measured rations.
5. When one eats a little, he is drawn more after food, than one who has not eaten at all and has already given up on eating.
6. Why did the Jews become liable to being annihilated? Because they took part in the feast of that evil one (a reference to the feast of Achashverus, in the story of Purim). 7. The Altar of the Holy Temple (meziach?) evil decrees, forgives sins, and nourishes and gives love. And the table on which one eats is compared to the Altar.
8. One who eats without first washing his hands, is as if he came upon a prostitute. One who makes light of ritual hand-washing is uprooted from the world.
9. One should not drink water in public.
SECOND BOOK:
1. Someone in the image of G-d, through his eating, he raises the food from the animal level to the human. And so the reverse.
2. The eating of fish arouses sexual lust.
3. Through the blessing after bread, G-d's existence is declared in the world. 4. Through the blessing after bread, the government is freed from strife and war.
5. One who learns Torah with a pure mind, so that his eating is holy to the point that he is nourished from the food that nourishes the angels. Through this his enemies are punished with strangulation. This is learned from Torah passages: "And it was on the third day, at the beginning of the 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)".
(I heard an explanation of this directly from him. For "And it was on the third day, at the beginning of the morning" was said in reference to the giving of the Torah, which is the aspect of one who learns with a pure mind, described above; "And in the morning there was a layer of dew" refers to the manna, which is food that nourishes the angels, as the Rabbis of blessed memory said; "And it was in the watch of the morning" refers to the splitting of the Red Sea, when the Egyptians were drowned, this having the aspect of strangulation, as our Rabbis of blessed memory said. (Rabbi Nachman) connected the three verses through the word "morning" that appears in all three. Through this he derived the above teaching from the Torah verses.)
6. One who does not experience taste in his food, he should know that G-d has cut Himself off from him.
7. The eating of tzaddikim is higher than the sacrifices, and higher than their conjugal relations.
8. Fish become fat in the merit of the sacrifices.
9. One who was bitten by a dog should know that the mercies of Heaven have been removed from him, and also it is certain that he has eaten forbidden foods.
10. One who guards himself from forbidden foods is saved from wild animals. 11. One whose enemies are uplifted, he falls into lust for food.
12. Through lust for food, one comes to love one of his children more than the others. 13. (Translate this accurately) -- the initials spell "Lulav (palm branch)". "With wine" (including the count of the letters), comes to the same Gematria as the initials of Etrog,
Hadas, Arava ( , myrtle, willow). "Masachti (translate) -- the aspect of Sukkot.
Through the commandment of taking the Four Species and through the Sukkah, a man merits food, drink and clothing, and also that his soul receive life-force. Through the Sukkah one merits to clothing, as in the passage "Fragrant clouds are His garment". Through the willow one merits to drink, through the myrtle one merits to give life to the soul, and through the palm branch and the ( ) one merits to eating, for they have fruits, which are a form of food.
15. The fact that when a man drinks, he begins to sing and play music, and it is not so with eating -- this is because they sang a song at the well, and not by the manna.