Even if a person performs many mitzvos and does teshuvah, everything is lost! His neshamah that performed all these mitzvos is gone. Every time a person becomes angry, he has to once again do teshuvah and perform mitzvos. Therefore, a person with a temper has little hope for success; he is like a dog who returns to eat his own regurgitated food. ( Shaar Ruach Hakodesh by Rabbi Chaim Vital) 57. An angry person will never be able to achieve spiritual levels, even if he is perfectly righteous in every other area. He is constantly destroying what he built and causing his neshamah to depart. (
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