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List of 48 Mussar Middot (מ״ח מוּסָר מִדּוֹת)

Why is this list of Middot different from all other lists? It's the biggest and most detailed list available - giving three English words per middah to deliver the fullest sense; explaining verbal roots and literal meanings; and listing similar middot in (parentheses) and opposites in [brackets]. It's also the only list to comprehensively incorporate the Kabbalistic Sephirot, Big Five personality traits, and Jungian cognitive functions/MBTI. Note that transliterations are standard but for the sake of beginner-friendliness pronunciations are written as most commonly spelled in English (for instance, KAL is written CALL). Note also that ideally each middah and its opposite are neutral in their purest forms but this neutrality is often lost through translation and interpretation. For this reason no Hebrew/English listing of Middot is perfect; we present this as a work in progress and invite your input here . See also the simplified list of 48 Middot without synonyms/antonyms etc. along with a one-page printable PDF. See also the list of the 48 Steps to Torah listed in Pirkei Avot 6:6. Permission to freely use this list is given with the request that you cite/link to the Mussar Center

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