Humility

1. One who shares in the suffering of the Jewish People, and prays for them, through this he comes to humility.

2. Through truth, one will merit to humility.

3. Through faith one comes to submission.

4. Through retaining a specific place for prayer, one comes to humility and piety (hassidut).

5. Through humility one's prayer is heard, and it is as if he had offered all the sacrifices.

6. Through humility, additional greatness is added to one's greatness.

7. Through humility, one's days are lengthened.

8. Through humility, one's deeds are not scrutinized.

9. The day on which you humble yourself, that day adds strength, might, and exaltation to the Holiness Above.

10. When you see that humility is increasing in the world, be expectant for the footsteps of the Messiah.

11. Through humility, fear of enemies is annulled.

12. Through humility, contention and suffering is annulled.

13. Through (one's having) humility, everyone is at peace with him.

14. Through humility comes grace.

15. One who has the quality of submission, does not have fear, as if he were sitting in a fortress.

16. Someone without the quality of submission has no fear (of Heaven).

17. Through humility one becomes great, also he does not fall from his level.

18. Someone who is soft hearted, he can submit himself more extremely (to the extreme).

19. Through humility, the Holy One Blessed He remembers him.

20. Through humility, the Holy One Blessed is He fulfills one's desires.

21. The world is only sustained by one who makes himself as nothing.

1. A segulah (auspicious) for having sons is to humble oneself.

2. Through excessive arrogance, one will be sodomized like a woman.

3. One can recognize in a man's voice, whether he is humble or arrogant.

4. Sometimes, through the lowliness with which a person diminishes himself, or through others diminishing him, through this is annulled a decree of death which was passed upon him.

5. When a person senses lowliness in himself, he should know that death has been decreed upon him.