Let no stain or ugliness be found in your possessions or in your home, and surely not on your body or clothes.
This middah does not merely speak of just physical cleanliness but of cleanliness on a larger scale - that of the soul. A person of cleanliness also lets no stain or impurity be found in his/her possessions or home, and surely not in one's ethical walk.
Meditation
Daily Questions
What were the "seeds" that started to affect your cleanliness today?
Were you able to be pure in your deeds and thoughts today?
What events today caused you to stray and perhaps not act as ethically and wholesomely? How did you respond to them? Were they in speech? Movies? Television? The Internet? Emails?
Were you able to use prayer or meditation to help you through the circumstances?
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Quotables
One who acquires understanding loves his soul, guarding understanding to find good. --Proverbs 19:8
Of Your precepts I speak and I look at Your paths. I occupy myself with Your statutes, I will not forget Your word. --Psalms 119:15
Ready my steps in Your word, and do not let any iniquity dominate me. --Psalms 119:133
Whosoever possesses these three qualities belongs to the disciples of Abraham our father: a generous eye, a humble spirit, and a meek soul. --Avot 5:22
Cursed is he who misleads an undiscerning person. --Deutoronomy 27:18
Regarding the cleanliness of language, it is said: “The throne [of the Mashiach] will be established with benevolence and he will sit on it through truth.” – Isaiah 16:5
Who is courageous? One who conquers his inclination. --Avot 4:1
Envy, lust and the [pursuit of honor] remove man from the world. --Avot 4:21