The Sefer HaMiddos — twenty-eight gates, one middah to a gate
My Orchos Tzaddikim opens the anonymous Sefer HaMiddos: the hakdamah and twenty-eight gates, each on one middah — gaavah and anavah, bushah and azus, ahavah and sinah, all the way to the gate of yiras shomayim. Every paragraph is pointed and translated, and the gates are named the way the sefer names them, so a person looking for the gate of humility finds שער הענוה rather than "chapter 2".
61,628 words scored with the app's own code · 12 Oct 2026
Word-by-word English
94.3%
Printed with vowels
95.9%
Shoresh coloured
40.6%
Full translation
100%
Shoresh colouring needs the word's root in the app's own table, which is still being filled — so that number is a count, not a ceiling, and it rises with every release. Every word is still read, glossed and heard.
What it does
Twenty-eight gates, each named for its middah
The gate titles are read from the text itself, not typed into a list that could drift from it — שער הגאוה, שער הענוה, שער הבושה, and on to the last gate.
Pointed and translated throughout
865 paragraphs: 864 carry nekudos (the one exception is a bracketed editorial header of pure abbreviations, and it is left as the text has it), and Seymour J. Cohen's translation covers every one of them, each in its own paragraph's place.
Every reading mode, as in every sefer here
Interlinear under each word, Nekudos on or off, the root coloured inside the word, the dikduk marked — and the Practice tab drills the open gate through the same voice coach as the siddur.
Attribution, said plainly
The composition is 15th-century and out of copyright; Sefaria's vocalized Hebrew is CC-BY-SA and the Cohen translation CC-BY, both credited on the Sources page. The app names what it stands on.
Who it's for — For anyone working on middos with a sefer rather than a slogan, for a family taking a gate at a time, and for a school teaching middos from the source. Premium and up — the third sefer on the Mussar shelf, beside Shemirat HaLashon and Shaar HaBitachon.
