Love

1. When there is no love between people, they go about gossiping, and through gossiping, they come to mockery, and through mockery, they speak falsehood.

2. Through hatred comes frightful events, and through hatred come fires (lit: things get burned).

3. Through the love of Hashem, may He be blessed, the soul is guarded from all evil calamities.

4. When you first repent of your sins, you can come to love Hashem Blessed be He.

5. Whoever prays for [the people of] Israel with self sacrifice, everyone loves him.

6. Through love, one is strengthened.

7. When you strengthen a person in the service of G-d, blessed-be-He, he will love you.

8. Through saying Hallel in a loud voice, one merits to love Hashem, blessed-be-He.

9. When you will be careful (to abstain) from baseless hatred, then when you have a legal case with a strongman who isn't willing to settle (-compromise) with you, through this he will settle with you.

10. One who is careful from (making) a false oath, he certainly will not transgress (the commandments – Leviticus 10:17) “do not take revenge and do not bear a grudge.”

11. [The] Garlic is conducive (segulah) for love.

12. One who serves out of love - his merit protects until two thousand generations.

13. In the place where a wedding agreement (condition) or any covenant is made, the L-rd, blessed is He, is present there.

1. When the plants grow to their completeness, through this there is love in the world

2. The love of a woman for her husband is discernable by the flies and mosquitoes that are in the house. Also, through their love, it is possible to know the power of the evil inclination, whether it has been weakened or not.

3. Sages of the generation that have love between them, who/that see each other occasionally, then they have the power to judge the whole world, and their judgment stands, and no one can change or annul their judgment, for the Holy One Blessed be He is the Chief Judge of their court.

4. Through needless hatred, one blunders (to eat) non-kosher meat/food.

5. Through lust of eating, one loves one of his sons more than his other sons.