House

1. A house that is uninhabited – beware of entering it, for it is a place of demons.

2. One who has negative experiences in one place should go to another.

3. When a house is fit to be blessed, then when the Tzaddik comes to the house, the blessing comes as well.

4. There are places that are conducive to good fortune, and the opposite is true as well.

5. Relating to the issue of the good and bad that comes to a person in a fashion proximate to natural events, it is all according to the time and place.

6. One who takes revenge out of jealousy destroys his house.

7. The place from where a man exited, he does not have desire for that place - to get from it pleasure.

8. If there is an uneducated hassid (-one who is overly pious), do not dwell in his neighborhood.

9. Any house in which words of Torah are heard will not be destroyed.

10. A city which has major ascents and descents (in its topography), its inhabitants grow old halfway through their lives.

11. If wine is poured out like water in a house, there is blessing.

12. Do not enter a house with idols in it.

13. Someone who wants to enter a house to live in it, he should recite the Torah in it's entirety, and afterwards he can enter to live in it.

14. Someone without land is not a man.

15. There are places which cause one to commit transgressions.

16. Anger and adultery of a woman destroy the house.

17. When the threshold of a house, or its entrances are destroyed, it is an evil omen for the house.

1. Living on the upper floor of a house is more conducive to serving G-d than living in the bottom floor.

2. Sometimes the construction of the house prevents a woman from conceiving, as when the beams are not placed according to their order from the Six Days of Creation. In such a case, the house is as if it were destroyed, even though it is standing. This destruction comes and harms the woman, and she does not conceive.

3. At the entrance to a man's house it is discernible if his ancestral merit has finished, or if his ancestral merit is effective.

4. One needs to be careful, in the building of a house, that it should not have in its construction, wood from trees that produce fruit.

5. The lumber that is in a structure, if a man merits, it will be in the aspect of “fiery angels standing” (Isaiah 6:2), and the structure will stand for a long time. If he does not merit – the fiery angels are burned, and thus, the fires that abound.

6. When a man builds a wall, and its capstone falls, he should know that this is an evil omen for his progeny.

7. A man does not find satisfaction (lit. enjoy or benefit) unless he dwells in a place where his forefathers dwelled.

8. It is a segulah (-auspicious), when one moves into a new house to live, to bring in a sword, knife, or other weapon. A sign for this: "With wisdom the house will be built. (Mishlei - Proverbs 24:3)" "Wisdom" is the acronym for the passage, "Extorted trade are their weapons.” (Bereshit 49:5)." The word "their trade" from this passage shares two definitions, "their swords" and "their dwellings" (-as both variations are explained in Rashi there, t.n.).

9. The cap of a house is a sign for the group or family, concerning what will happen to them.