Musar of Reb Israel Salanter

At least I would like to take the opportunity to mention the Musar of Reb Israel Salanter. I found this very helpful in understanding the basic approach of the Torah. I mean one could learn the Tenach [Old Testament] and the whole Oral law and still not have very clear idea of the basic values of Torah. One thing you see in Torah that is important is Fear of God. "What does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear HIM?" That is pretty open and plain. And what way is there to come to fear God except by Musar--that is the books of ethics written during the Middle Ages that explain the basic approach of the Torah.without musar people put in their own value structures that they pick up from psychology or other garbage they pick up from the street and impose it on the torah structure, thus they appear frum religious but with values opposite from the Torah. An they do this without knowing that they are doing it.