[7:1] Since man has freedom of choice, as explained above, a person must repent verbally, confessing his transgressions and ridding himself of his sins, so that he dies as a righteous, repentant Jew, worthy of life in the World to Come.

[7:2] A person does not know how long he is destined to be in this world. Therefore he should repent immediately, and not say to himself, "when I am old, I will repent." King Solomon wisely said, "Let your clothes always be white." (Ecclesiastes 9:8)¹.

[7:3] Do not think that repentance applies only to sins involving action, such as immorality, robbery, and theft. Just as one must repent these sins, so too must one search his soul for bad character traits, and, repent for becoming angry without proper justification, for being envious of his fellow man, for hating his fellow man, for mocking his fellow man, for running after money or honor, for overindulging in food, etc. From all these sins he must repent. It is more difficult to repent of bad character traits than o