The parts about his attitude toward death, for the most part. It seemed very kalt to me, especially as I read it around the time of the death of a close relative of mine. (Some other stuff as well, but I think that was just stuff that I wasn’t used to/that didn’t work so much for me.) The particular rav I talked to told me to look at it as a way of disagreeing and making a foil for Mesilas Yesharim, which takes the opposite approach- so I’m going to reread through that lens and see if it sits better with me.
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