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Q:

If I want to accept upon myself to begin learning a mussar sefer in order to get ready for Rosh Hashanah, which sefer do you recommend?

A:

I would advise, if you really mean business, to learn Mesillas Yesharim. Now, you may have a taste for other seforim, I’m not saying not, but Mesillas Yesharim you have to know is tried and tested. Generations have succeeded by means of that sefer. It has a tremendous effect.
When the Gra saw that sefer and he read the first eleven perakim he said that there’s not even one single unnecessary word in the first eleven perakim. He said that if the Mesillas Yesharim, if Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato, was still alive in his days, he would walk on foot to Italy and make him his Rebbe.
So I would advise you, in case you don’t know what to do, to learn Mesillas Yesharim. You won’t regret it.
TAPE # E-157 (September 17, 1998)

Rav Avigdor Miller on Choosing a Mussar Sefer

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Q:

If I want to accept upon myself to begin learning a mussar sefer in order to get ready for Rosh Hashanah, which sefer do you recommend?

A:

I would advise, if you really mean business, to learn Mesillas Yesharim. Now, you may have a taste for other seforim, I’m not saying not, but Mesillas Yesharim you have to know is tried and tested. Generations have succeeded by means of that sefer. It has a tremendous effect.
When the Gra saw that sefer and he read the first eleven perakim he said that there’s not even one single unnecessary word in the first eleven perakim. He said that if the Mesillas Yesharim, if Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato, was still alive in his days, he would walk on foot to Italy and make him his Rebbe.
So I would advise you, in case you don’t know what to do, to learn Mesillas Yesharim. You won’t regret it.
TAPE # E-157 (September 17, 1998)

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