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Mussar Series | Everyday Holiness | Chapter 8: Patience (Savlanut)

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Apr 22, 2026
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Whimsical fashion illustration of a woman sitting behind the steering wheel in her car sitting in traffic and she is angry

Most of us grew up thinking patience means staying calm. The serene, unruffled person who just doesn’t get that worked up. Nothing bothers them. They breathe through it. They smile.

That person is not practicing savlanut. They might just have a lower trigger threshold than the rest of us.

The Hebrew word for patience, savlanut, shares its root with sevel,…

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