Amigo

24 An ish of many companions may come to ruin,

but there is an ohev (friend) that sticketh closer than a brother.

17 The re’a (friend) loveth at all times,

and a brother is born for tzarah (adversity).

9 Shemen and ketoret rejoice the lev;

so doth the sweet discourse of a re’a (friend) from an atzat nefesh (a counselling of the soul).

17 Barzel (iron) sharpeneth barzel (iron);

so one ish sharpeneth another.

5 Open tovah tokhakhat (good, constructive reproof)

is better than secret ahavah.

6 Ne’emanim (faithful) are the wounds of an ohev (friend);

but deceitful the neshikot (kisses) of an enemy.

10 Thine own re’a (friend),

and the re’a avicha, forsake not;

neither go into thy brotherʼs bais in the yom of thy calamity;

for better is a shakhen (neighbor) that is near than a brother far off.

20 He that walketh with chachamim shall be wise,

but a companion of kesilim (fools) shall come to harm.

24 Make no friendship with a ba’al af (angry man),

and with an ish chemot (man of wrath) thou shalt not go,

25 Lest thou learn his orkhot (ways),

and take a mokesh (snare) for thy nefesh.

6 Rav adam will proclaim every one his own chesed,

but an ish emunim (faithful man, loyal man) who can find one?

4 Wealth maketh many friends,

but the dal (poor) is separated from his re’a (neighbor).

13 Ahavah (agape) gedolah than this no one has, that someone lay down his neshamah for his chaverim.* 14 You are my chaverim, if you are shomer oner my mitzvot.* 15 No longer do I call you avadim, because the eved does not have da’as of what his Adon is doing. But you I have called chaverim, because all things which I heard from HaAv of me, of all these things I gave you da’as.*

12 This is my mitzvah for you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have ahavah (agape) for you. 13 Ahavah (agape) gedolah than this no one has, that someone lay down his neshamah for his chaverim.*

11 Chaverim, if Hashem so had ahavah for us, also we ought to have ahavah one for another. 12 No one has ever beheld Hashem. If we have ahavah one for another, G-d makes His ma’on in us and the Ahavas Hashem in us has been made shleimah.

16 By this we have had da’as of ahavah, because that One on behalf of us laid down his nefesh;* and we ought, on behalf of the Achim b’Moshiach, to lay down our nefashot. 17 Now whoever has vital possessions of the Olam Hazeh and sees the Ach b’Moshiach of him being nitzrach (needy) and has no rachamim (mercy) on him* and refuses gemilut Chesed, how does the ahavas Hashem make ma’on in him? 18 Yeladim, let us not have ahavah in dvar or in lashon but in ma’aseh and in Emes.*

23 And the Kitvei Hakodesh was fulfilled, Avraham Avinu V’HE’EMIN B’HASHEM V’YACHSHEVEHA LO TZEDAKAH* (believed Hashem and it was accounted to him for righteousness). He was even called "Ohev Hashem"* ("Friend of G-d").

10 Show mishpochah (family) affection to one another in ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love). Be first in esteeming one another, in showing mutual respect.

9 Two are better than one because they have a sachar tov for their amal. 10 For if they fall, the echad will lift up his partner, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

1 (Shir HaMa’alot, of Dovid)

Hinei, mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gahm yachad!

(how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity)!

2 It is like the precious shemen upon the rosh,

that ran down upon the beard,

even Aharonʼs beard;

that went down to the collar of his robes;

3 As the tal of Chermon,

and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Tziyon;

for there Hashem commanded the brocha,

even Chayyim Ad Olam.

63 I am a chaver of all them that fear Thee,

and of them that are shomer over Thy pikkudim.

3 Then Yonatan and Dovid made a brit (covenant), because he loved him as his own nefesh.

33 Do not fall under a delusion. "Bad chavrusashaft (association, influence or hashpa’ah) corrupts good midos."