Redeeming Prisoners

1. Through haughtiness of the heart, one falls into incarceration.

2. One who agrees with the non-Jews falls into their hands. Rather, one should contradict all of their words.

3. Someone who says a statement in the name of the one who said it (originator), brings redemption to the world.

4. Through redeeming prisoners, the redeemer's dispersed are gathered.

5. Someone who does not leave his house is considered as if incarcerated.

6. Through the sin of homosexuality, one becomes incarcerated.

7. Someone who has mercy on prisoners, the Holy One, Blessed be He, saves him from death.

8. Someone who is incarcerated, it is certain that his soul above is also incarcerated.

9. Someone who comes to the Tzadik and asks the Tzadik advice, and afterwards violates his advice, as a result, he becomes incarcerated.

10. One who feeds bread to the hungry, the Holy One, Blessed be He, saves him from the jailhouse.

11. One who did not fix the sins of his youth, as a result, he goes to the jail house.

12. Someone who is accustomed to performing circumcisions, or providing for the expenses of the circumcision feast for a poor person, through this, he is saved from the jail house.

1. Through lewdness, one falls into incarceration or foot pain sickness. Also, a student who had not reached the level of delivering a halachic directive, yet prescribes, falls into this. Also, damaging spirits rule over (afflict) him.

2. Charity is a segulah (conductive) to nullifying all of those punishments.

3. Due to not requesting compassion on behalf of one's friend, as a result, one falls into incarceration. And a remedy for incarceration is to support some living creature.

4. Through having marital relations on days on which such relations are forbidden, through this one falls into incarceration.

5. When one of the children of Israel falls into incarceration, as a result, according to his aspect, the wellsprings of wisdom are sealed up from the wise of the generation, and the opposite is true when he is freed from incarceration.

6. Sometimes, through incarceration, one is saved from loss of children.

7. Through lushon hura (slander), one becomes incarcerated.

8. The hairs that grow on a person and the clothes on a person at the time that he sits in captivity, an ugly spirit rests upon them which makes a person ugly and degraded.

9. Making an effort to free prisoners is a segulah (conducive) for child-bearing.

10. Someone who is involved in freeing prisoners, through this, the great ones of the generation are included in him.