Sefer HaMiddot, A House, Part I/ספר המדות·בית·חלק ראשון

1A person should avoid entering an abandoned house, because it is a place of evil spirits.

2One who suffers misfortune in a certain town should move elsewhere.

3When the Tzaddik enters a house that is destined for blessing, the blessing comes as well.

4There are places that are designated to have good things to happen in them. The opposite is also true, [as there are places designated for bad to happen there].

5All the seemingly natural occurrences that befall a person, for good or bad, are influenced by time and place.

6Avenging one’s jealousy destroys a person’s home.

7A person has no desire to benefit a place from which he departs.

8Don’t live in the vicinity of a boor who behaves piously.

9Any house where the words of Torah are heard at night will never be destroyed.

10People age twice as fast in a city with many hills.

11There is blessing in a house where wine is poured like water.

12Do not enter a house in which there are crosses.

13A person who wants to move into a house should first recite the entire Five Books of Moses and then move in.

14One who owns no property is not a man.

15There are locations that induce one to sin.

16A woman’s anger and immorality destroy her home.

17It is a bad sign for a house when its threshold and entrances are destroyed.