Promiscuity

1. One who entertains thoughts of a gentile woman, through this his children will not be Torah students.

2. The fortune of a woman goes according to the fortune of the man (i.e. her husband; present or future).

3. Intercourse that takes place in a beautiful home draws a beautiful and proper appearance upon their children.

4. He who has relations with a non-Jewish woman is considered as if he intermarried.

5. Perfumes inject desire in a man.

6. A daughter of a Cohen and a common Jewish man, or a daughter of a Torah scholar and an unlearned man - their match does not have fortune: Either she will be widowed, or divorced, or childless, or her husband will bury her, or she will bury him, or she will bring him to poverty and shame.

7. A promiscuous elderly man - people (lit. cognizance) cannot bear him, and eventually he becomes despised in his own eyes.

8. There are seven that are like they have been excommunicated, and one of them is one that does not have a wife.

9. Sexual desire can not be distanced from a man except through distancing the vision of the eye and thought.

10. Do not enter into negotiations with your temptations, for the elaboration of the sensations of the contemplator, even directed at negation, will effect reinforcement of the desire, and his will - will be overturned on him (towards it).

11. Through wine (comes about) most promiscuity.

12. One without a wife is not a man, and is as if he spills blood, and diminishes the image.

13. One who detracts from his wife's time (i.e. the time and circumstances that the Torah allows for procreation), and she suffers from this, is punished with death.

14. Sometimes, through marital matches whose partners are not suited to each other, one of them dies.

15. One who marries a wicked divorced woman, she comes to bury him.

16. The licentiousness of the wife destroys the house.

17. Anyone who has immoral sex, through this their wives see in a dream impurities called murrin.

18. Anyone who marries a woman for the sake of Heaven is as if he gave birth to her.

19. Through a marriage which is not holy comes fire.

20. Anyone to whom an opportunity to sin comes, and he refrains, a miracle is done for him.

21. One who marries a woman who is not appropriate for him, is as if he plows the whole world and plants in it salt, and when G-d basks His Divine Presence, He testifies on behalf of all the Tribes, but not on behalf of him.

22. One who breaches the Covenant (that is, one who commits sexual transgressions) is as if he transgressed all the commandments.

23. Pants atone for sexual immorality.

24. Through promiscuity, the righteous fall.

25. Through lamenting the death of the righteous, one breaks himself from love of women.

26. Through spilling one's seed wastefully, one creates Klipos (husks - evil forces) that enclothe themselves in people who oppose him, and antagonize him, and cause him suffering.

27. One who has relations with a married woman, in the end comes to spill blood (i.e. murder).

28. One who eradicates sexual transgressors, with this he rectifies the sins of his forefathers.

29. One who wants to guard his sexual purity (lit. the sign of the covenant) should always say the truth, and also should do kindness to one from whom he does not expect repayment.

30. For [the rectification of] despoiling sexual purity (lit. covenant), he should pursue peace.

31. Through strife, one comes to despoiling sexual purity (lit. covenant).

32. Promiscuous thoughts come as a result of the "Breaking of the Vessel of Kindness", and according to the abundance of (fallen) sparks, so is the abundance of the promiscuous thoughts.

33. One who transgresses the prohibition against homosexual relations through this he is caught and incarcerated.

34. Mercury is conducive for masculine potence.

35. One who has relations with his wife in a time of hatred, the children born make themselves apostates.

36. Through promiscuity, one becomes exiled under the hand of frivolous governors, and becomes in-debt.

37. In the merit that the women guard against promiscuity, the Messiah will come, also a person will not be dependent on his fellow, and the honor of the Tzaddikim is aggrandized.

38. Promiscuity comes as a result of involvement with names of the impure and witchcraft.

39. One who has relations with a non-Jew (lit. a Kutite) channels all the bounty to the Other (Impure) Side.

40. Through promiscuity comes forgetfulness.

41. A repair for releasing seed in waste – that he should make efforts to bring people back in repentance.

42. One who guards sexual purity (lit. covenant), even if he does not have ancestral merit, the Holy One – Blessed is He, grants him merit.

43. Through inadequate faith come promiscuous thoughts.

44. Through the sin of witchcraft and promiscuity, the Tzaddik passes away.

45. The offspring of sexual offenders will become in need of witchcraft.

46. Offspring born through witchcraft will be promiscuous.

47. Sexual offenders, for the most part, oppose the righteous.

48. One who emits his seed in vain, it is as if he brings his children as a sacrifice to idol worship, and also he is judged by stoning.

49. Through promiscuity, one destroys the memory.

50. Through promiscuity, sense of shame departs.

51. Through overeating, one comes to promiscuity.

52. When a man commits a sin, afterwards he is pained due to the spark (of holiness) within him. But when a man violates his sexual purity (lit. covenant), he is not pained afterwards, for the spark has already left him.

53. One who does not despoil his sexual purity (lit. covenant), through this he has memory.

54. Promiscuous thoughts come as a result of false oaths.

55. Someone who serves as a guarantor for a wicked person becomes promiscuous.

56. One who destroys his path (-seed), through this the wallet is penniless.

57. Through sexual immorality comes murder.

1. Through promiscuity, one falls into incarceration or to the sickness of feet pains. Also a student who has not achieved (the level) of instructor (in Jewish law, and even still goes ahead) and rules, suffers this fate, also destructive spirits dominate him.

2. Through discord, one falls into sexual lust.

3. Through sexual relations on days that relations are forbidden, through this one falls into imprisonment.

4. Through sexual lust comes constipation, and from constipation comes leprosy.

5. Through favors one does for others, sexual lust is annulled, and so the opposite.

6. Guarding sexual purity (lit. the covenant) is the source of the blessings.

7. All who guard their sexual purity (lit. covenant) merit to understanding the seventy languages that are hidden in the Torah.

8. It is forbidden to judge favorably one who has transgressed with homosexual relations.

9. Parnassa (livelihood) is according to the marital match.

10. An unoccupied man who is not involved in any occupation, through this his sexual desire abounds, and he constantly speaks filthy words.

11. Someone who guards his sexual purity (lit. covenant) is permitted to rejoice when he sees the fall of his enemies.

12. Danger on the roads comes as a result of sexual impurity (lit. violation of the covenant). A hint for this from the Torah: "my going and resting you have encompassed etc. (Tehillim 139:3)." [Explained in travel, part 2, #3, page 165]

13. A woman who is accosted for illicit relations, even if she did not actually have relations, the request itself leaves an impression upon her.

14. One who shuts his eyes to avoid seeing evil, through this he is saved from humiliations.

15. Through forbidden sexual relations comes murder.

16. Through sexual relations with non-Jews (lit. the nations) comes apostasy.

17. One who self appoints himself to a position of authority through this his daughter becomes a prostitute, G-d forbid.

18. Accountants, for the most part, are full of promiscuous lust.

19. One who does not look upon women merits that his descendants will compile commentaries on the Torah.