Well, hello there! Hope you have had a great week so far… here’s some reading stuff to spice it all up a bit in case it is necessary. This past week I have been thinking a lot about how one can improve one’s life quality & just living a worthy life. We’re attending a bar mitzvah this week, and I’ve been supporting my husband with his speech at it. In the process, I started to reflect upon what I wished myself that someone had told me when I entered adulthood, and in this process, I stumbled upon the concept of “Musar” (also spelt Mussar), which is a Jewish spiritual practice that gives concrete instructions on how to live a meaningful and ethical life. Mussar is virtue-based ethics — based on the idea that by cultivating inner virtues, we improve ourselves. It is a belief that our inner drives, wounds and appetites often manifest as the Yetzer Hara (the Evil Inclination), actively preventing us from behaving as we know we should. One Mussar teacher, Rabbi Elya Lopian (1876-1970), described Mussar as “
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