Hospitality

1. One who does not take in guests, by this (he) strengthens the hand of evildoers, that they will not return in repentance.

2. A city that does not practice hospitality comes to sexual immorality, and through sexual immorality there comes upon them (mass) killing.

3. Hospitality gives merit to a woman to have sons.

4. Receiving guests is comparable to receiving Shabbos.

5. One who hosts a Torah scholar in his home, the Scripture considers it as if he had offered the daily burnt offerings (see Likutay Moharan 28:3).

6. Receiving guests is greater than coming early to the house of (Torah) study and/or welcoming the countenance of the Divine Presence.

7. Since the rabbis are not found regularly by them, they are comparable to Cuthites (-people who denied the validity of the Oral Torah which is entirely based on the rulings and exegesis of the true Sages).

1. Through practicing hospitality, fear of G-d rests upon all beings.

2. A segulah (-propitious, charm) for returning a woman to her fertility cycle, is through hosting guests.

3. Through the sanctification of G-d's name blessed He, the eminence of the heads of the generation is in force with might; and through this, the mitzvah (-commandment) of hospitality is important in the eyes of all, and through this the scholars merit that the halacha (-Jewish law) is like them.