Mussar gives you words for the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS and makes them real to you. ❦ Conversation #36

The way you move really hot food around in your mouth. Moonlight on water. When you're about to introduce someone and forget their name. The day after tomorrow. That crazy urge to squish cuteness. People who spend lots of time and little money at coffeeshops. What do these things have in common? There's no English word for them! Same goes for Mussar. It's a vocabulary, a language. Without Mussar we don't have words for things - things we really need, things that aren't real to us otherwise. Speaking of which! Let's look at some Hebrew Mussar words that have no English equivalent.