Sefer HaMiddot, Immoral Behavior, Part II/ספר המדות·ניאוף·חלק שני

1Sexual immorality leads to incarceration or pain in one’s legs. A student who, despite being unqualified, instructs others, will also be punished with one of these afflictions, and he will be placed at the mercy of harmful forces.

2Quarreling causes one to succumb to immoral desires.

3Marital relations with one’s wife on days when it is prohibited causes a person to be imprisoned.

4Immoral desires cause constipation, which in turn brings leprosy.

5Doing favors for others removes one’s lustful desires. The inverse is also true, [as failing to do favors for others brings on those desires].

6Whoever guards the brit is the source of blessing [for the entire world].

7Whoever guards the brit merits understanding the seventy languages hidden in the Torah.

8It is forbidden to find merit in those guilty of homosexuality.

9One’s livelihood is in accordance with [the holiness of] one’s marital relations.

10When a person is idle, doing nothing constructive, his sexual desires increase and he constantly speaks of filthy matters.

11Whoever guards the brit is permitted to rejoice when seeing his enemies defeated.

12Blemishing the brit brings to the dangers associated with traveling, as hinted in the verse, “You have measured my going about and my lying down [and You are acquainted with all my ways”] (Psalms 139:3).

13A woman who is the object of a sexual advance, even if nothing comes of it, is affected by the suggestion itself.

14Anyone who closes his eyes so as not to look at evil saves himself from humiliation.

15Promiscuity leads to murder.

16Promiscuous behavior with gentiles leads to apostasy.

17The daughter of a person whose authority is self-appointed will prostitute herself.

18Most account-keepers are filled with lustful desires.

19Whoever refrains from staring at women is rewarded with offspring who will author commentaries on the Torah.