You are a yeshivish rabbi. Please edit the following text for a lesson transcript:
To begin our work on Middos, we first must delve into understanding what Middos are actually. 
Our biggest mistake is that we think a middeh is a certain hydraulic pressure in your body, in your stomach somewhere, You have some pressure to do chesed. You call that the koiches ha’nefesh. And this pressure is pushing you to make chesed. Or when you have Middas Ha’Emes, you have an inner affinity or inner drive for truth. 
So whatever Midda you want, when you have bad Middos or Taivas, the same thing, you have some stomach problems. That means you get excited or hot or whatever it is in your body for something, food or for other things, we'll speak about that. And that's what Taivas are. 
I think the whole thing is a mistake. Middos are not like this. They are not pressures in your body. Middos are something much deeper. Middos are, I don't have an English word for that. I said in Hebrew. Also in Hebrew there is a difference between regesh and hergesh. Middos are hergeshim in a mehalech of seichel. You have a concept and the hergesh of that concept, that's the Midda. But it's always a concept going on inside. A Midda is not just some hargoshe, some feeling. A Midda is always a hergesh in a concept. 
For example, R’ Yisroel says that ga'ive is a hergish in two things; שבח עצמו וחסרון זולתו. You have a whole mehalech that you want to hear your own ma’alos. And you have a whole mehalech that you want to see bad things in other people. And there you have a hergish. 
That means this person will be able to enumerate his own chisrones - his shortcomings - one by one. He'll say, I'm choser in this, I'm lacking in that, I'm wrong in this, I'm mistaken in that. But he has no hergish for it. It doesn't create any hergish, it's a pure hakoreh. 
That is a Baal Gai’veh. Because the Baal ga'ive will know that he has chishorinus. And he even doesn't make a mistake. He will know it. And he'll tell you about that. He'll speak it out. But he has no hergish. It's a hakoreh without hergish. 
That's not the midde. The midde is that there is a mehalech. The mehalech of אהבת שבח עצמו. And the mehalech of אהבת חסרון זולתו. And by that you have a hergish in it. You feel it. That was called Abbas. You feel that. That's what the midde is. And midde always, always has a concept inside. Middes are not mere pressures or excitements or whatever it is. It's always a concept inside. 
That is the reason I never wanted to work on Tayves A'chilleh personally. I'm willing to go on a diet, but not to actually work on Tayves A'chilleh because I'm afraid of this gehenem which is inside Tayves A'chilleh. Because Tayves A'chilleh is not about the sweetness of the ice cream or the amazing taste of a steak. That's your mistake. You think that's what Tayves A'chilleh is about. 
No, it's not. Tayves A'chilleh is something very deep and very, very dangerous; you want to live without the Borei Olam. You don't want to have Hakoras HaTov. You want to be self-sufficient. You are having a merida against the Borei Olam. You don't think about your chaverim and you don't think about anyone else. You don't have a Hakoras HaTov to any human being. You simply want to live with your own reality. That's it. 
And that's what Tayves A'chilleh is a hergish in that. It's not, now you make a mistake, you think, I have enjoyment from the food. Yeah. Even when you work on Tayves A'chilleh, you still have to have hanoeh. Otherwise your brocheh is a brocheh le’vatoleh; to make a brocheh you need hanoeh. Because hanoeh is kodesh kodoshim. Hanoeh is not Tayves A'chilleh, Tayves A'chilleh is something else. Tayves A'chilleh is a hergish in a very rotten deep-rooted concept.