Quote of the Month

"Hebrew has a term – musar – which if not strictly coterminous with 'ethics' nonetheless points in that direction. … This literature looks … to what ought to be done as well as to the dispositions, attitudes, values, and intentions of the doer. It is concerned with what we would call moral psychology, with motivation, akrasia, attention and inattention, attitude, indecision, focus and distraction; it is the Jewish equivalent, in broad terms, of the study of virtue."

(Alan Mittleman, A Short History of Jewish Ethics)