TRAVEL (a way)

1. One who wants to cross the sea, should take with him a bird and an ocean fish, and this is propitious (segulah) to cross the sea peacefully (/safely).

2. One who cheers himself with the joy of a groom and bride as they exit the marriage canopy, will not be hurt on the way (-his travels).

3. In the hour that the wagon drivers busy themselves with the carriage and with the horses, say the Wayfarer's Prayer.

4. A segulah (propitious) for someone who is traveling on the sea, he should take plaster (lime) with him, and he will be saved.

5. Someone who arranges Parnassa (income or livelihood) for the tzadikim is assured that G-d will protect him, both on the road and on the sea.

6. Someone riding on a horse should take with him Hoshanot (one of the four species taken on Succot).

7. When you want to travel, bind yourself first with the trait of trust (in G-d), and through this, you will not stumble (lit. your feet will not be smitten).

8. When you set out on a journey, give first to charity.

9. All the ways that a person traverses, it is all from the blessed G-d and they are the will of G-d. However, there is no one who can understand his way except for someone who is humble.

10. When you carry with you stones that are found across the field, you will be saved from wild animals.

11. The prayer of Yonah the Prophet is propitious (segulah) to say on the sea.

12. Through accompanying a guest on his way out, the person (the guest) is protected from all harm on the way.

13. One who has no one to accompany him (on his journey) should engage in Torah.

14. A person acquires the place where he goes.

1. Through confession, one cause that the Holy One Blessed is He brings teachers of small children that teach faithfully.

2. Also one causes the roads to be repaired from stumbling blocks.

3. 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. (alternatively: my seed you have scattered; thus the above contingency) (Tehillim 139:3)."

4. Through traveling the ways, a man becomes a person of expert understanding.

5. On a night that you have a nightmare (lit. fear at the time of sleep), do not travel in the day.

6. (Traveling) The roads brings a person to evil speech (lushon hura), idolatry, promiscuity, and spilling blood, and these sins diminish one's livelihood.

7. Broad steps confuse the intellect from in depth study.