שערי תשובה

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Feldheim Publishers, 1967 - 390 páginas
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
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