[Avodah] Middos of the Avos

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Yitzchak Schaffer suggested:

> The two possibilities that occurred to me:
> - Their souls were pre-wired for perfection in these middos
> - The individuals cultivated their respective middos to a
>   phenomenal degree

It seems obvious to me that if they were pre-wired for PERFECTION, then they would have had no challenge, and hence no zechus for succeeding. But they did, and this (to me) proves that they were not pre-wired for *perfection*.

But I can easily believe that they were pre-wired to be interested in those midos, no less than one person is interested in Mesilas Yesharim and another in Chovos Helevavos. And then, as RYS says, they worked on themselves and "cultivated their respective middos to a phenomenal degree."

Akiva Miller

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