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Sefer HaMiddot: A House by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Part I
A person should avoid entering an abandoned house, because it is a place of evil spirits.
One who suffers misfortune in a certain town should move elsewhere.
When the Tzaddik enters a house that is destined for blessing, the blessing comes as well.
There 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].
All the seemingly natural occurrences that befall a person, for good or bad, are influenced by time and place.
Avenging one’s jealousy destroys a person’s home.
A person has no desire to benefit a place from which he departs.
Don’t live in the vicinity of a boor who behaves piously.
Any house where the words of Torah are heard at night will never be destroyed.
People age twice as fast in a city with many hills.
There is blessing in a house where wine is poured like water.
Do not enter a house in which there are crosses.
A person who wants to move into a house should first recite the entire Five Books of Moses and then move in.
One who owns no property is not a man.
There are locations that induce one to sin.
A woman’s anger and immorality destroy her home.
It is a bad sign for a house when its threshold and entrances are destroyed.
Part II
Living in the upper storey of a house is better for serving God than living in a lower storey.
Sometimes, the structure of a house prevents the woman [living there] from bearing children. When the beams in the structure are not positioned in the manner designated for them since the six days of Creation, the house is considered a ruin even while standing. This ruin harms the woman and she cannot bear offspring.
At the entrance of a person’s house one can determine if the owner’s ancestral merit has ceased or if it is still in effect.
One should take care that the wood of a fruit-bearing tree was not used in the construction of his house.
Concerning the beams of a building: If one is worthy, they are like the standing seraphim, and the building will remain standing for a long time. If he is not worthy, the seraphim are consumed; this being a most common reason for fires.
It is a bad sign for one’s offspring when he builds a wall and its top part falls off.
A person has pleasure only when he lives in a place where his ancestors once lived.
A segulah for a person moving into a new house is to bring into it a sword, a knife, or some other type of weapon. A hint to this is found in the verse, “A house is built with ChoKhMah (wisdom)” (Proverbs 24:3); the letters standing for “Klei Chamas Me’cheiroteihem (weapons are their wares)” (Genesis 49:5) — [me’cheiroteihem referring alternatively to] “their swords” or “their dwelling places.”
A house’s roof is indicative of what will happen to the group or family living there.
