Utmost Importance

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Mizrahi’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

that working on midot is of utmost importance. As a matter of fact, working on midot is in a way more important than working on the mitzvot. People could think that midot is nice. Okay, if you have good character, good for you. And if you don't, okay, as long as you keep the mitzvot, as a matter of fact, it's not true. And then shalom says that there are no mid in the Torah. Why not? Because the Torah is given assuming that you already have the midot. If you don't have mid, then you're pre-orrah. You didn't even get to getting the Torah yet. The Torah is only given assuming that we have midot. So mid's character traits and working on them is of utmost

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