Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives the name to the Musar movement in 19th-centur
Mesilat Yesharim (Path of the Just): cover page
Tikkun Middot ha-Nefesh-The Improvement of the Moral Qualities, by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Hebrew version 1167. 1869 edition
Orchot Tzaddikim-The Ways of the Righteous, anonymous author. First Hebrew edition, Prague 1581
Pirkei Avot, is a compilation of the Jewish theological and ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition. It is part of didactic Jewish ethical literature. Because of its contents, the
Musar literature
…Shabbath folio:31a, Babylonian Talmud Pirkei Avot is a compilation of Jewish ethics and related teachings the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period and part of didactic Jewish ethical musar literature. Because…
Pirkei Avot with Bukharian Judeo-Persian translation
Derech Chaim commentary by Maharal (Cracow edition, 1589)
First page of a medieval manuscript of Maimonides's commentary on Pirkei Avot, The Eight Chapters.