נהנה מאחרים

When a Tzaddik accepts money from a wicked person, even if the money is possibly stolen, it is permitted for the Tzaddik to accept it, so that the wicked one will not take on some wicked Torah scholar, claiming that the scholar is a Tzaddik, giving him the money, and he will oppose the True Tzaddik. Since the proliferation of those who accept gifts, days have become diminished and years shortened.

A person who you received benefit from one time - do not humiliate him. One who weighs his clout on the Jewish people ends up being needy of others. One who does not accept money from others, raise all his children. The King funds his expenditures from the people.

One who does favors for others is permitted to benefit from them, and they ought to serve him. One must be involved in some form of business, in order that ultimately he will not need arrest the study of (lit.

words of) Torah. One who asks for his portion verbally is as if he had stolen.

One who is reliant on his friend's table, his world is darkened, and his life is not considered life.

One who has a Neshamah (3rd level of the Jewish soul), he has pleasure from scent. Great is [the benefit from] the work of one's own hands, for it saves a man from killing.

3. From the sin of foul language, troubles and [evil] decrees are renewed, and the young men of Israel die, G-d forbid, and orphans and widows cry out and are not answered.

4. One who defiles his speech, even if they have sealed for him a decree of seventy years for good, they reverse it to

bad. Also, they deepen Hell for him. This also applies to one who hears [such speech] and remains silent.

5. More stringent is one who speaks verbally than the one who performs an action.

Through the benefit you receive from your fellow man, through this you suffer pain due to his sins. BENEFIT FROM OTHERS One who hates (accepting) gifts does not fear from false accusations.