With regard to your traits of anger and rage:
Ask your teachers to thoroughly explain to you the concept of individual Divine providence, which is a foubdation of our faith.
The general substance of this concept is:
The Creator and Conductor of the world oversees with individual providence each and every detail of your life, that is to say, you are constantly under G‑d’s supervision and He observes all your actions.
When you will ponder this matter many times until it is ingrained in your memory, this will surely diminish your temper and anger.
You should also perform that which the Shulchan Aruch commands, that when one offends another individual, even when done in a fit of anger, he is to beg his complete forgiveness.
It is difficult to ask forgiveness from another [after having caused them offense]. When you force yourself to overcome your [natural] reluctance [to ask forgiveness] and make sure to do so [as directed in the Shulchan Aruch], then every time you are about to become angry you will surely remember that afterwards you will have to ask that person’s forgiveness.
This, too, will assist you in diminishing your character trait of anger and the like.
(Igros Kodesh, Vol. XVIII, p. 169)
Ask your teachers to thoroughly explain to you the concept of individual Divine providence, which is a foubdation of our faith.
The general substance of this concept is:
The Creator and Conductor of the world oversees with individual providence each and every detail of your life, that is to say, you are constantly under G‑d’s supervision and He observes all your actions.
When you will ponder this matter many times until it is ingrained in your memory, this will surely diminish your temper and anger.
You should also perform that which the Shulchan Aruch commands, that when one offends another individual, even when done in a fit of anger, he is to beg his complete forgiveness.
It is difficult to ask forgiveness from another [after having caused them offense]. When you force yourself to overcome your [natural] reluctance [to ask forgiveness] and make sure to do so [as directed in the Shulchan Aruch], then every time you are about to become angry you will surely remember that afterwards you will have to ask that person’s forgiveness.
This, too, will assist you in diminishing your character trait of anger and the like.
(Igros Kodesh, Vol. XVIII, p. 169)
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