(27) A _chasid_ ([chasid]), "saint," is one who does more than
the strict letter of the law requires. See Schechter,
_Studies_, II, pp. 148-181, _idem_, _Aspects_, p. 209, Rawicz,
_Commentar des Maimonides_, pp. 95-96, and Gorfinkle, _The
Eight Chapters_, pp. 60-62.

(28) "A welling spring" (Taylor).

(29) He lived in the first half of the second century, C.E.

(30) _I.e._, an eye that looks upon people with benevolence
and kind feelings, free from envy and ill-will.

(31) A good friend is one who induces his associate to study
_Torah_, and who reproves him when he sees him doing wrong.
The passage means not so much to gain a good friend as to _be_
a good friend.

(32) One who balances the present against the future.

(33) The heart was considered the seat of all moral and
spiritual functions. See Schechter, _Aspects_, p. 255 _et
seq._

(34) Denotes niggardliness, envy, or jealousy.

(35) _I.e._, one who lacks foresight and incurs
responsibilities he is unable to meet borrows from God, as all
wealth belongs to Him, and men are merely His stewards. The
word [makom], literally "place," "space," was used to