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Cleanliness — Nekiyut נְקְיוּת

Let no stain or ugliness be found in your possessions
or in your home, and surely not on your body or clothes.[1]

Resources

Middah Worksheet for Nikiut (cleanliness)

Rabbi Stone on Nikiut (cleanliness)

[1] Cheshbon ha-Nefesh (“Accounting of the Soul”) is a step by step approach to improving one's characher traits. It was written by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Satanov. It was published in 1845 with the encouragement of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter. The book is available from Feldheim Publishers.

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