Four Humors

Four humors character traits

Posted By: jewishhiphop 
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 03:38

BLOOD YELLOW BILE PHLEGM BLACK BILE
Air Fire Water Earth
hot and moist hot and dry cold and moist cold and dry
"SANGUINE" "CHOLERIC" "PHLEGMATIC" "MELANCHOLIC"
(amorous, happy, generous) (violent, vengeful) (dull, pale, cowardly) 
(gluttonous, lazy, sentimental)
  http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/humours.html - 
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/chaucer/coursematerials/humours.html
8.  And this is what our Sages of blessed memory said (Sotah 21) an analogy of a 
person, who was walking on a pathway in the dark of night, and he was afraid of 
the thorns and ditches and from wild animals and bandits, and he didn't know 
which way to go etc.
 
Since this is known, that all of the bad character traits and their derivatives 
result from the four foundations, from the four humors, as is brought in the 
Mishnat Chassidim: depression and its derivatives are resulting from the 
inanimate, bad lusts and their derivatives are drawn from the vegetable, vain 
words and their derivatives are drawn from the animal, arrogance and its 
derivatives are drawn from the human (literally the one who speaks); and he who 
wants to go in the way of holiness, needs to break all of the bad attributes and 
tell about them before a Torah Scholar, meaning words of confession, and the 
Torah Scholar will clarify and indicate for him a path according to the root of 
his soul.