Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.   Study

2.   Attentive Listening

3.   Orderly Speech

4.   Understanding of the Heart

5.   Fear

6.   Awe

7.   Humility

8.   Joy

9.   Serving the Sages

10.   Closeness to Friends

11.   Debating with Students

12.   Settledness

13.   Studying the Written and Oral Torah

14.   Purity

15.   Limiting Sleep

16.   Limiting Conversation

17.   Limiting Work or Business

18.   Limiting Levity

19.   Limiting Pleasure

20.   Limiting Mundane Activities

21.   Slow to Anger

22.   Goodheartedness

23.   Faith in the Sages

24.   Accepting Suffering

25.   Knowing One’s Place

26.   Happiness with Your Portion

27.   Making a Fence around Your Activities

28.   Not Claiming Credit for Oneself

29.   Being Beloved

30.   Loving God

31.   Loving God’s Creatures

32.   Loving Rebukes

33.   Love of Uprightness

34.   Distancing from Honor

35.   Not Being Overly Satisfied in One’s Learning

36.   Not Taking Joy in Handing Down Rulings

37.   Bearing the Burden with the Other

38.   Judging Others Favorably

39.   Leading Others to Truth

40.   Leading Others to Peace

41.   Being Settled in One’s Studies

42.   Asking Pertinent Questions

43.   Listening and Contributing

44.   Learning in Order to Teach

45.   Learning in Order to Do

46.   Making One’s Teacher Wise

47.   Clarifying What One Has Heard

48.   Saying Something in the Name of Its Speaker

Conclusion: With Heart in Mind

Notes

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