{
  "bookId": "sefer-hamidos",
  "part": "1",
  "torah": "53",
  "title": "Mockery",
  "hebrewTitle": "לֵיצָנוּת",
  "sourceUrl": "/reader/sefer-hamidos/1/53",
  "plainUrl": "/reader-plain/sefer-hamidos/1/53/",
  "segments": [
    {
      "index": 1,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי לֵיצָנוּת יִהְיֶה לוֹ נוֹשִׁים הַרְבֵּה וְהֵם יִמְשְׁלוּ בּוֹ. גַּם נִכְשָׁל בְּנִאוּף, גַּם אִשְׁתּוֹ מוֹשֶׁלֶת בּוֹ.",
      "en": "1. Through mockery, one will have many creditors, and they will rule over him. Also he will fail in promiscuity. Also, his wife will dominate him."
    },
    {
      "index": 2,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי לֵיצָנוּת הוֹלֵךְ וְנוֹפֵל. גַּם בָּא לְמִדַּת שֶׁקֶר, וְנָע וְנָד מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם.",
      "en": "2. Through mockery, one walks and falls (alt. - continuously falls). Also, he comes to falsehood, and wandering from place to place."
    },
    {
      "index": 3,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי חֲנֻפָּה בָּא לֵיצָנוּת.",
      "en": "3. Through adulation comes mockery."
    },
    {
      "index": 4,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי לֵיצָנוּת בָּאִים יִסּוּרִים.",
      "en": "4. Through mockery comes suffering."
    },
    {
      "index": 5,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי לֵיצָנוּת אֵין לוֹ חָכְמָה.",
      "en": "5. Through mockery he does not have wisdom."
    },
    {
      "index": 6,
      "he": "הַלֵּיצָנוּת הִיא מְתַעֶבֶת אֶת הָאָדָם עַל הַקָּדוֹשׁ־ בָּרוּךְ־הוּא וְעַל הַבְּרִיּוֹת.",
      "en": "6. Mockery makes a person loathsome to G-d and to people."
    },
    {
      "index": 7,
      "he": "עַל־יְדֵי לֵיצָנוּת בָּא שְׂרֵפָה.",
      "en": "7. Through mockery come fires (lit. burning)."
    },
    {
      "index": 8,
      "he": "הַלּוֹעֵג עַל דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים, נִדּוֹן בְּצוֹאָה רוֹתַחַת.",
      "en": "8. One who mocks the words of the Sages is judged (sentenced to be committed) in boiling excrement."
    },
    {
      "index": 9,
      "he": "כָּל לֵיצָנוּתָא אֲסִירָא חוּץ מִלֵּיצָנוּתָא דַעֲבוֹדָה זָרָה.",
      "en": "9. All forms of mockery are forbidden, except for the mocking of idol-worship."
    },
    {
      "index": 10,
      "he": "קָשָׁה לֵיצָנוּת, שֶׁתְּחִלָּתוֹ יִסּוּרִין וְסוֹפוֹ כְּלָיָה.",
      "en": "10. Mockery is a dreadful matter – for it begins with suffering and its end is annihilation."
    },
    {
      "index": 11,
      "he": "הַמִּתְלוֹצֵץ – מְזוֹנוֹתָיו מִתְמַעֲטִין וְנוֹפֵל בְּגֵיהִנֹּם וּמֵבִיא כְּלָיָה לָעוֹלָם.",
      "en": "11. One who mocks, his sustenance is diminished, and he falls into Hell, and he brings destruction to the world."
    }
  ]
}