שערי תשובהFeldheim Publishers, 1967 - 390 sidor The classic work on repentance and religious conduct. For anyone seeking the true path to repentance and reconnection with G-d, this incisive guide is essential. With vowelized Hebrew and English translation. Pocket edition |
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Concerning the Principles of Repentance | 11 |
The gravity of repetition of a | 11 |
The second principleforsaking | 15 |
Levels and degrees of repentance corresponding | 21 |
Worry in respect to repentance | 29 |
The eighth principle | 41 |
Praying for assistance towards repentance | 59 |
The seventeenth principle to pursue works of lovingkindness and truth | 63 |
Not to bring up the past to penitents and proselytes | 177 |
Not to teach what is erroneous and not to be hasty in teaching | 179 |
Not to be a talebearer | 181 |
To speak respectfully of Torah scholars | 185 |
Not to be haughty of eye | 187 |
To pay a hired worker upon the day of his labor | 189 |
To establish community welfare groups | 191 |
To appoint functionaries for the above purpose | 193 |
The eighteenth principle ones sins being constantly before him | 65 |
The twentieth principle to turn as many as possible from transgression 67 | 67 |
The twentyfour deterrents to repentance | 69 |
SECOND GATE To Teach the Ways by Which One May Awaken Himself to Return to God 1 Six motivations to repentance | 71 |
The first means acknowledging ones troubles as the fruits of his sins | 73 |
Gods chastisement for the good of man | 75 |
Gratitude for afflictions | 77 |
Regarding affliction as an instrument of good | 79 |
Selfrighteousness an impediment to repentance | 81 |
Old age to be entirely devoted to the service of God | 83 |
The third means the acceptance of words of reproof 87 | 89 |
Receiving reproof the service of the ear | 91 |
The fourth meanslearning Torah | 93 |
The fifth means the Ten Days of Repentance and Yom Kippur | 95 |
Treating lesser mitzvoth as greater ones | 149 |
The taking of interest in respect to the above | 153 |
The fourth levela negative commandment in which no action is involved | 155 |
Exhortations involving the heart | 157 |
Not to make trial of God | 159 |
To trust in the salvation of God | 161 |
To cultivate generosity | 163 |
To remove hatred from our souls | 165 |
Not to contemplate sin | 167 |
Cleanliness in the service of God | 169 |
Exhortations involving speech | 171 |
Not to curse | 175 |
The fifth level a negative commandment involving an action | 195 |
Ridding meat of its blood | 197 |
Not to touch a married woman | 199 |
Not to derive benefit from forbidden fruit | 201 |
Not to derive benefit from the sinew of the thighvein | 203 |
Not to practice divination or soothsaying | 205 |
Not to oppress a debtor | 207 |
Not to pair beasts of different kinds | 209 |
Not to live with an unmarried woman | 211 |
To take no fee for judging | 213 |
Not to erase the Name of God 215 | 217 |
Robbing the poor | 219 |
Sexual offenses | 221 |
To frequent a house of study in ones city | 223 |
Theft of gifts due the poor | 225 |
Those who are cut off from this world | 227 |
Three considerations because of which God is longsuffering with the wicked | 229 |
The gravity of living with a menstrually unclean woman | 231 |
Transgressions punishable by burning | 233 |
The gravity of living with a gentile maidservant | 235 |
Certain sins and their penalties | 237 |
The dust of idol worship | 239 |
The gravity of shaming ones neighbor in public | 241 |
The tenth levelthe severity of the transgressions whose trespassers have no share in the World to come | 243 |
The asking of forgiveness before confession | |