מוסר the importance of learning musar. ''Musar'' refers to books on world view, fear of God, and good character from the Middle Ages written by Rishonim, but on a secondary level refers to books from the disciples of Reb Israel Salanter.

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 they have with values opposite from the Torah. And they do this without knowing that they are doing it.------Without מוסר, people put in their own value structures that they pick up from the street, and impose it on the תורה structure. Thus, they appear דתי, but they have with values opposite from the תורה. And they do this without knowing that they are doing it.בלי מוסר, אנשים שמים את מבני הערכים שלהם שהם לוקחים מהרחוב, וכופים אותם על מבנה התורה. כך, הם נראים דתיים, אבל יש להם ערכים הפוכים מהתורה. והם עושים זאת מבלי לדעת שהם עושים זאת ''Musar'' refers to books on world view, fear of God, and good character from the Middle Ages written by Rishonim, but on a secondary level refers to books from the disciples of Reb Israel Salanter.חשיבות של לימוד מוסר-היינו חובות לבבות, מסילת ישרים, אורחות צדיקים, שערי תשובה, ותלמידי ישראל ותלמידי ר' ישראל סלנטר.The fact of the matter is that it is hard to figure out from the written Torah and Talmud directly what is the world view of Torah. The importance of the Rishonim is that they are able to define the approach of the Torah based on the Written Law and Talmud and midrashim. the importance of the disciples of Reb Israel Salanter is they try to convey to us that approach in understandable terms and try very hard not to add nor subtract.