Orchot Tzaddikim

Welcome back to day number 10 of our journey through Orchos Tzaddikim, through the ways of the righteous, and we are at the beginning of the chapter, chapter one, the first gate, the gate of arrogance, of haughtiness.

And we're on page 47 in the Treasure for Life edition, published by Feldheim, and welcome to the journey of hopefully perfecting our character and our traits.

«Hagaavah hi hametbeah asher pasa hamelech hagadol baruch hu.» Arrogance is the trait, the primary trait that the Almighty has disliked and has, uh, really, uh, you know, invalidated before us.

Okay.

I don't know where the Orchot Tzaddikim was written.

It's an anonymous work from around the 14th century.

I sort of like hope that it was written in Italy because then we would have all Italians as our speakers on this worksheet, but I really don't know.

Orchot Tzaddikim is an amazing Musar text.

One of the amazing things about it is that it's anonymous.

That's like, that was an intentional choice.

And in chapter 21, he deals with silence.