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# One should be content with one's lot <ref> KSA 29:6 </ref>. | # One should be content with one's lot <ref> KSA 29:6 </ref>. | ||
# One should be as bold as a lion, light as an eagle, as fast as a deer and as strong as a lion, to do the will of your Father in heaven <ref> Pirkei Avos 5:23 </ref>. Thus, one shouldn't be embarrassed from people who scoff at him in his Divine Service. Nevertheless, one shouldn't likewise respond brazenly to them, so that one doesn't acquire the character trait of brazenness / עזות פנים <ref> KSA 29:8 </ref>. | # One should be as bold as a lion, light as an eagle, as fast as a deer and as strong as a lion, to do the will of your Father in heaven <ref> Pirkei Avos 5:23 </ref>. Thus, one shouldn't be embarrassed from people who scoff at him in his Divine Service. Nevertheless, one shouldn't likewise respond brazenly to them, so that one doesn't acquire the character trait of brazenness / עזות פנים <ref> KSA 29:8 </ref>. | ||
# Argument is very bad <ref> </ref>. One shouldn't cause argument, even for a Mitzvah matter <ref> KSA 29:9 </ref>. | |||
==Ways to Perfect Character Traits== | ==Ways to Perfect Character Traits== | ||
