1. The eightieth subject is this, that there is a time when thou recitest one Ashem-vohû [1], and the merit of it may be as much as that of ten. 2. There is a time when thou recitest one Ashem-vohû, and the merit of it may be as much as that of a hundred. 3. A time may be when thou recitest one [2], and the merit of it may be as much as that of a thousand. 4. A time may be when the merit of one Ashem-vohû [3] may be as much as that of ten thousand. 5. [ p. 344 ] A time may be when the merit of one Ashem-vohû is as much as the value (qîmat) [4] of this world and that other world [5].
6. As for that Ashem-vohû whose nature [6] is as much as ten, that is when they recite it as they eat bread. 7. That which is, from nature, as much as a hundred is when they recite it after eating [7]. 8. That which is so much by nature that, having turned side over side, they recite it correctly may be a merit of a thousand [8]. 9. That which is of the nature of ten thousand is that which thou recitest when thou risest up from sleep [9]. 10. And that whose nature is as much as this world and that other world [10] is when they recite it at the time of the dissolution of life; for, if he be not able to recite it himself, friends and relations give it into his mouth. 11 [11]. If he be fit for hell he becomes fit for the ever-stationary, if he be fit for the ever-stationary he becomes fit for heaven, and if he be fit for heaven he becomes fit for the supreme heaven [12].
(343:3) See Chap. VII, 1 n. The contents of this chapter are derived from Hn. I, 11-35 (Yt. XXI, 6-15). ↩︎
(343:4) B29 adds ‘Ashem-vohû.’ ↩︎
(343:5) La omits ‘the merit of;’ and B29 has ‘when thou recitest one Ashem-vohû, and the merit of it,’ both here and in § 5. ↩︎
(344:1) So Lp, B29, Hn., but La has qismat, ‘share, destiny.’ ↩︎
(344:2) B29 omits these four words. ↩︎
(344:3) B29 has ‘value,’ both here and in §§ 7, 9, 10. ↩︎
(344:4) La has ‘sleeping.’ ↩︎
(344:5) B29 omits § 8. ↩︎
(344:6) La omits § 9. ↩︎
(344:7) B29 has merely ‘is the price of this world.’ ↩︎
(344:8) Lp, B29 insert ‘for.’ ↩︎
(344:9) See Pahl. Hn. I, 35 a. ↩︎