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Mussar

A Jewish ethical and spiritual discipline of character refinement, revived in nineteenth-century Lithuania.

Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

Mussar, instruction or ethics, is the practice of working on one’s traits, humility, patience, generosity, through study, reflection and exercises. Rabbi Israel Salanter founded the Mussar movement in nineteenth-century Lithuania. It has seen a renewal in recent decades.