Find Strength, Purpose and Connection Through Mussar
Timeless Jewish Wisdom for Today's World
Why Mussar?
Mussar is a Jewish spiritual practice that provides a structured path to developing your inner character and living with greater holiness in everyday life. Through the study and practice of Mussar, you’ll develop awareness of your soul traits (middot) and learn practical techniques to bring them into better balance.
Whether you’re seeking to strengthen your relationships, deepen your Jewish connection, or live more ethically, Mussar offers time-tested wisdom for navigating life’s challenges with intention and compassion. Join our vibrant community of practitioners and experience the transformative power of this ancient practice made accessible for contemporary life.
Words From The Founder of The Mussar Institute
There is the potential for our approach to Mussar to be perceived as self-help, exclusively on a humanistic plane. Our approach, the Mussar approach, is deeply rooted in the Torah and with this rootedness comes several layers of reality; additional to the worldly, there is a spiritual presence within the material. There is divinity.
This is a spiritual perspective on self-help, making Mussar distinct from other approaches. As we say, working on the self but not for the sake of the self. We are more than a lineage and tradition, there is this truth, this emet, that is the foundation of all we say and do.
We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the spirituality of Mussar. It broadens the perspective of what is the self, what is one’s responsibility to develop their “selves” and this is all so germane to the Jewish perspective.
– Alan Morinis
