On Shabat I noticed the chapter in Job [circa 25 or around there] that discusses the question "Where is wisdom to be found.?" Then it goes through a long list of all the places and approaches that do not work. The depths say it is not in them. Not the sea or land or heavens. It seems clear that even all the efforts that one might expend on finding wisdom, nothing works--until finally at the very end of that chapter one (and only one) way is found. That is Fear of God. "Fear of God is Wisdom."
So you see the idea of Rav Israel Salanter about learning Musar. I.e., the books that show how to come to authentic fear of God.
The benefit of this is according to Job is that it brings one to true wisdom.
[If only I would merit to this!! I spent a good deal of time while at the Mir in New York (outside of the regular sedarim (sessions of learning which were five hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon.). But still I found time to go through a lot of the basic group of Musar books. [The classical mediaeval five or six plus some of the achronim[authorities after Rav Joseph Karo]]. I can say that this definitely helped me in many ways.
[So what makes sense to me is to have yeshivot that walk in the path of Musar and the Gra.]
[I might mention that Musar sessions in yeshivot are short. In my opinion it would be better to have the original time period of forty minutes after the morning session of gemara until mincha. [i.e. Gemara until 130 P.M., then musar for 40 minutes. ] Then 30 minutes before maariv [i.e. Gemara fast learning from 4 P.M. until 8P.M. the 30 minutes of Musar.]
[Job clearly hold taking Diversity Studies does not help to come to wisdom. But further than that, he is saying all the other ideas that one might think help are delusions.]
