Shame

1. One who humiliates his friend becomes mute and forgets .

2. It is permitted to embarrass the rabbis who lease the rabbinate for the sake of conceit, and it is appropriate to disgrace them, and to make light of their honor, and one should not stand for them, and they should not be called "Rabbi", and the prayer shawl on them is like a mule's saddle.

3. It is better to annul one's Torah study than to humiliate a Jew.

4. One who humiliates a Torah scholar, or one's friend in front of a Torah scholar, is an 'apikohrus' [apostate]. He is also called one who is brazen faced against the Torah.

5. The garment of a righteous man atones for the spilling of blood.

6. When people insult you, fast and weep.

7. When shame comes to you, it is only that you should repent for the sins that you commit carelessly.

8. Also, shame comes when you rejoice in the pain of your friend.

10. Someone who needs to give over a collateral to procure a loan, it is certain that these items which were pledged were contemptible in his eyes in another life.

11. When some shame comes upon a person, he should expect a salvation.

12. One who wants to be shamed (t.n. or feel ashamed) should envision the image of his mother.

13. Through giving charity for the sake of Heaven, you will come to the trait of abashment.

14. When shame comes upon a person, it is certain that he does not have the quality of trust (in G-d).

15. One who digs a pit, in the end he will be shamed (to whatever degree), and sometimes the matter causes him to become the subject of gossip among people.

16. Through having trust (in G-d), shame will not come upon him.

17. One who steals from the poor, shame comes upon him.

18. When a person cusses and embarrasses you, and he is not your enemy, carry and bear the shame, for it is certainly from Heaven that he should berate you. And by this shame, you will be hidden and concealed from the satan, who hates you and is always overbearing upon you, and accusing you. Through this shame that you bear from one who is not your enemy, through this the enemy, the satan, will not be overbearing on you.

19. Through adulation, you will become an object of derision amongst the (gentile) nations, and the (gentile) nations will curse you and be enraged at you.

20. When someone humiliates you or laughs at you, it is certain that you humiliated his forefathers.

21. When everyone is humiliating you and causing you pain, be silent and do not leave your house (lit. from the entrance of your house).

22. When you are being humiliated, give charity.

23. Through charity, you will merit to the quality of abashment.

24. Humiliation of a king: The Holy One Blessed be He punishes even a nation that humiliates a different king of a foreign nation.

25. A sinner will be humiliated in the World to Come before his teachers (/rabbis. alternate text: forefathers).

26. One who humiliates a Torah scholar will have no healing for his wounds.

27. It is proper that when hearing from a friend a falsehood not to jump and embarrass him, rather hint to him with a motion, so that he will recognize that it is not so.

28. It is a Mitzvah to publicize evildoers.

29. One who is abashed will not readily sin.

30. One who does not have the quality of abashment, it is certain that his forefathers did not stand on Mount Sinai.

31. It is better (lit. easier or more comfortable) for a man to throw himself into a fiery furnace so as not to humiliate his fellowman in public.

32. When your friend humiliates you, agree with his words.

33. One who embarrasses (lit. whitens – because when a person is embarrassed the blood rushes out of his face) his fellowman in public, it is as if he spilled blood, and he descends to Hell and will not rise.

34. It is better (lit. easier or more comfortable) for a man to have relations with a woman who might be married than to humiliate his fellowman.

35. Do not embarrass one of the nation who is committed as you are to the Torah and Commandments. However, it is permitted to humiliate a sinner, and to verbally abuse him.

36. All the gates (t.n. of prayer) are closed, save the gate of one verbally abused.

37. All things are punished by a messenger, except for verbal abuse, and the Curtain is not locked before it .