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106. Anyone who wants to be guarded in his ways should not step over water that is spilled before the door, since there is a demon there between the two doors of the opening, and his face is turned toward the door, and he sees everything that is done in the house. For this reason, one must not spill water between the two gates of the opening.

Clear water is not forbidden, but he should not spill it in a degrading manner since the demon has permission to harm. Moreover, he turns his head toward the house, and wherever he looks becomes cursed.

107. The demon has 365 servants, as the number of the days of the year, which he controls. They all come out along with the person when he goes out from his home, since the Creator wanted to guard Israel and established His holy name above, which is the Torah, and the whole Torah is one holy name, and one who engages in Torah, engages in His name.

108. A person should inscribe the holy name, which is the faith in all, at the entrance to his home, since wherever the holy name is present, evil kinds are not present and cannot slander a person, as it is written, “No harm shall befall you.”

109. The place where there is the entrance to the house is as it is above. The place where there is the entrance to the upper house is called “Mezuzah,” which is the correction of the house and the door to the house. Those with rulers and accusers flee from the Mezuzah and are not present before it. Correspondingly, below, when a person fixes a Mezuzah at the entrance to his home, and the holy name Shaddai is inscribed in its letters, that person is crowned with the crowns of his master, the evil kinds do not approach the entrance to his home, and are not present there.

110. Man is obligated to welcome the face of the Shechina every beginning of the month and Shabbat [Sabbath]. And who is the face of the Shechina? It is his teacher.