Faith

1. It is necessary to believe in Hashem, may He be Blessed, by way of faith and not by way of proof/sign.

2. Through humility, you merit to faith.

3. When you see something unusual (happen), do not say it happened by chance, rather, believe that this is the providence of Hashem, may He be Blessed.

4. There are things that bring great damage to the world. And it is a difficult matter - why were they created? You should know, that certainly they have one beneficial aspect in them.

5. Someone who enjoys the words of a heretic, even though the words are not heretical, through this, he comes to thoughts of idol worship.

6. Through faith, a person is beloved to Hashem, may He be Blessed, as a wife is to her husband.

7. Someone who does not prepare his heart, is not able to come to faith.

8. Someone who has lost something, it is known that he fell from his faith.

9. Someone who lost his faith, should go to Jewish graves and tell over the kindnesses that the Holy One, Blessed be He, did for him.

10. Faith depends on a person's mouth (see item #24).

11. Through learning [Torah], all the heresies are broken.

12. Through faith, one is blessed.

13. Through excessive eating, one falls from faith.

14. When you gaze at the skies when they are clear and bright, you merit faith in the sages.

15. When some difficulty about Hashem, may He be Blessed, befalls [you], then be silent, and through the silence, your thoughts will themselves respond to you an answer to your question (see Job 20:2 with Rashi, and see Likutay Moharan, volume 2, Torah-teaching 7)..

16. When they insult you, and you are silent, you merit to understand an answer to your problem, and you merit a spirit of understanding.

17. When a person has learned and very wealthy opposers, know that this happened because he fell many times from faith.

18. Faith is considered like charity (see item #30).

19. Through faith, one becomes wise.

20. At first, one needs to believe in Hashem, may He be Blessed, and afterwards, he merits to understand Him intellectually.

21. The mating of the Holy One, Blessed be He, is through the souls of Israel.

22. A person's intentional sin inserts heresy in to a person.

23. When one falls from his faith, he should (/will) weep.

24. Faith comes through silence (see item #10 and #15).

25. Through jealousy, a person falls from his faith.

26. Someone who does not have faith, it is known that he belittles words of Torah.

27. Someone who cleanses his hands all the time, through this, he cleans his heart.

28. When a person falls from faith, he should know that they are judging him Above.

29. When one falls from his faith, he comes into the grip of an accidental emission, and into the grip of thoughts of women, and into the grip of thoughts of idolatry.

30. Faith comes through charity (see item #18).

31. Through faith, it is possible to understand Hashem, may He be Blessed.

32. Through faith, it is possible to come to trust.

33. Through faith, the Holy One Blessed be He will forgive you for all of your sins.

34. Sometimes, the Holy One Blessed be He sends suffering to a person and smites him, but does not cast him down into weakness. This is only for the sake of faith.

35. Through a false oath, one falls from faith.

36. Someone who lacks faith does not accept moral criticism.

37. Someone who does not believe in the words of the Tzadik, ultimately, he will have no enjoyment from the matter, even thought he sees [the matter come to pass].

38. Someone who lacks faith, it is certain that the laws of the Holy One Blessed be He are despised by him.

39. The Messiah will come quite suddenly. As a result, because of joy, Israel will be frightened.

40. When the Messiah comes, then all the ministers, of above and of below, will get sick. But now, when a minister ascends, then Israel (- the Jews) are sickened.

41. In the time to come, each one who is younger in years than his fellow, will be higher.

42. Jerusalem was only destroyed because they profaned the Sabbath, nullified the recital of the Shema in the morning and evening, and nullified [the Torah learning and prayer of the] young children (tinokos shel bais rabban), and were not ashamed from one another, and the equated the small and the great, also they did not rebuke each other, also they humiliated Torah scholars, also men of integrity desisted from her.

43. Jerusalem will not be redeemed, just through charity.

44. War is the beginning of redemption.

45. Someone who raises pigs, he holds back the redemption.

46. Jerusalem will not be rebuilt, until there is peace among Israel.

47. That which Israel goes in exile from nation to nation, is a sign that the Messiah will come.

48. When the nations exceedingly disgrace us, this is a sign of the Messiah.

49.The Holy Temple will not be built, until arrogance ceases.

50. Through the unity that will exist in Israel, the Messiah will come.

51. The Messiah will come in a year of blessing.

52. The Messiah will not come, until all the souls have been depleted from the [supernal] body.

53. Someone who marries off his daughter to a Torah scholar, and one who gives him to benefit from his wealth, and one who does business for a Torah scholar, merits to the Resurrection of the Dead.

54. From the breath of the mouth of the liar, the Evil Inclination is created, and when the Messiah comes, then there will be no falsehood, as a result of this, there will be no Evil Inclination in the world.

55. Someone who is a man of truth, he can recognize in another (person) if the other (person) speaks truth or not.

56. Falsehood -- the majority/many will not agree to (upon) it.

57. The Holy One Blessed be He hates this man who says one (thing) with his mouth and one (other thing) in his heart.

58. A rich man who denies (-having the possessions of others) - the conscience cannot bear him, and also he is despicable in his own eyes.

59. A rectification for the mouth – that he should give charity.

60. Through the truth, the world is protected from all damages.

61. Through sycophancy, one comes to falsehood.

62. Someone who gives charity -- his reward is that he will merit to truth.

63. Through falsehood, you will certainly hate the humble.

64. A person can be recognized through his servants whether he loves falsehood or not. (t.n. see Truth item 17).

65. When there is no truth, there is no kindness.

66. When you have falsehood, when the Holy One Blessed be He wants to perform some salvation for you, then the falsehood reveals your sins, so that He will not save you.

67. Through truth, the Holy One Blessed be He redeems you from all suffering.

68. Better for a person to die, then to live and be considered a liar in the peoples' eyes.

1. Sometimes, a person comes to a certain place, and he suffers in that place. He should know that his forefathers were in this place, and some heresy befell them. Or, his children will come at this place to some heresy. Because of this, he bears suffering now in this place.

2. Through adulation, one comes to heresy.

3. The Holy One Blessed be He does not perform wonders except for one who believes in two worlds.

4. Through faith, the decrees that the nations decree upon us are nullified.

5. Know, that each and every grass has a specific power to heal some specific sickness. This is only for someone who not does not guard his faith and his [organ of the] covenant, and does not guard himself from transgressing "do not disdain anyone". But someone who has perfect faith, and he also guards his [organ of the] covenant and fulfills "do not disdain anyone", his healing does not depend on types of grasses which are specific to his illness. Rather, he is healed by all food and drink, in the aspect of "He will bless your bread ...", and he does not need to wait until they provide specific grasses for his healing.

6. The main salvation which is coming, is only through faith. And the attribute of faith is according to the leaders of the generation.

7. When one goes from master to master, then he needs to strengthen his faith in the Unity of Hashem, may He be Blessed. Because learning from many teachers damages faith in the Unity. So too, the master who has faith in the Unity, he is able to illuminate to each and every student according to his ability, and each student only hears what he needs, and no more.

8. Consolation comes through faith.

9. Through the diminishment of faith, flies increase in the world.

10. Someone who guards himself from transgressing "do not covet", through this, he is saved from anger, and arrogance, and from a lack of faith which comes through anger and arrogance.

11. By not making G-dliness known to the nations of the world, through this, the nations of the world incite and seduce Israel to follow superficial sciences.

12. Through spoiling of faith, judgments are aroused. And through thoughts of idol worship, judgments of judgments are aroused. That is, they judge the judgments that were judged already, as to whether they were judged properly and without leniency.

13. Bereavement of children comes, G-d forbid, to someone who cast down his fellow from faith.

14. A woman who is careful about challah [piece taken from dough] -- her children are faithful.

15. Through faith, the mind is settled.

16. Through Torah one comes to faith, and through faith, one comes to sanctify Hashem.

17. Someone who is not able to sleep, should arouse in his thought faith in the Resurrection of the Dead.

18. Those of little faith -- it is difficult for them to conceive original Torah ideas.