The Worst Midda

I think they are all forms of or result from ????.

sorry for my ignorance in mussar but how are middos bad, its like a tool just like you could use a hammer to bang a nail or brake a skull so too you could use tayvah to do aveiros to have a tayvah for mitzvos?

A hypothesis:

??????? ?????? ??????? ???? ?? , ??? ?????, ?????, ???? ????? ???? ????? ????- I believe all the middos you mention are all different sides to the same coin – living in an illusory reality. It’s the opposite of truth, which is good, so I think it may be self explanatory why these middos i.e. living an illusion are the worst. It’s the farthest away from the truth.

Gaavah – self explanatory. Having gaavah means living in the illusion of “Koch v’otzem yadi”

Taavah – living with the false assumption that what you want is THE most important, you’ll stop at nothing to get it. Forgetting that Hashem is the One that should determine your wants, and that other peoples feelings should come into consideration.

False Gaavah – Building a false reality where you are the best at everything. (Can’t do teshuva in that case, because what’s there to do teshuvah for? I’m wonderful.)

Loving bad – that’s also creating a false reality, seeing bad as good and good as bad.

I used second person just because it was easier. I ‘m not talking to anyone specific.

I have no idea if I am right or wrong, and I did not check the context of your quotes. This is just a hypothesis.

P.S. If you’ve ever met a person who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder you can see clearly how all these middos tend to exist together.

whilst you are on the subject of the good and the bad of middos can anyone please explain where the good is in the middah of kaas – anger?

But anger can be useful because it’s powerful. It just has to be aimed correctly. Not at people.

But if anger wouldn’t exist, it would be incomprehensible.

But there are different subtypes of each. Some of those are entirely bad.