Punishment

1. Sometimes, when a person performs a Mitzvah (Divine commandment/good deed) and the Holy One, Blessed be He, punishes him, this is because he did not perform a similar Divine commandment when he had the opportunity to do so.

2. Sometimes a person is judged according to his own words. (t.n see Likutay Moharan 113)

3. Sometimes a man is murdered because he had the ability to advocate on behalf of someone who was being hated for no reason.

4. Sometimes a man is punished because of negligence in his work, or because a decree had been passed upon the people of his community or upon his nation.

5. The Holy One, Blessed be He, is swift to punish those who are ungrateful, through the agency of those who are ungrateful.

6. Someone who was bit by a dog, it is certain that he accepted slander (lushon hura) or spoke slander.