1 December 2021
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It would be an absolute faux pas to speak about musar literature in Judaism as if this was referring to an "ethical literature." There is no Hebrew word for the term ethics at all, and in our medieval literature, one would only deal with ethics because one was dealing with Greek thought. Therefore, [ethics] was designated as "the teachings of the attributes" (torat ha-middot), and Maimonides would call it the "teachings of opinions" (torat ha-de‘ot).
(Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Siḥot al Messilat Yesharim le-Ramḥal)