Rabbi Chaim Mintz discusses managing anger and self-control in this Torah class.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
we are in the midst of discussing one of the main fundamentals foundations of Judaism mid character traits how to control them and how to change them not an easy task we started last week discussing we didn't finish it was never finish it it's a lifelong uh project for person to take over from self to control one's Midas over from self to control one's Midas and to change one's Midas for sure it's not an easy task so we mentioned last we I put down gloss sheet again just to go to them quickly and add adding some how can the person go about controlling his character traits his anger his desires his laziness stinginess all different character traits that we want to usually usually they're not some sometimes they're good usually they're not usually they're not good and to be able for us to be in control of them and not be controlled by them and with that's number one we have like you mentioned to control one's character traits so he said number one the first step is to try to the to avoid having the challenge keep away from the circumstances that cause us to have the challenge and then cause us to have the challenge and then we're in the danger of not living up to the challenge of losing ourself and getting angry and saying things we shouldn't say or desirous and doing things we shouldn't do and so on the best thing is to avoid the challenge that was number one we mentioned last week the second thing we said for a person to think about when we're faced with the challenge and to control ourselves is to to to remember and to
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