Pele Yoetz Pele Yoetz
on Sefaria is a book of

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Musar literature Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives the name to the Musar movement, in 19th century Lithuania, but this article considers such l ...

(Ethics) first published in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

in 1824 by Rabbi Eliezer Papo.Jewish pilgrims flock to Bulgarian holy site
/ref> The work is a "classical moral treatise", and compilation of essential Jewish concepts, organized with its topics following the order of the

Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewi ...

. It is written in style that "speaks to the heart as well as the mind". Thus, the ''Musar'' that it presents is not limited to abstract ethical precepts and esoteric concepts; rather it encompasses all aspects and phases of day-to-day Jewish living: the ritual as well as the ethical, the mundane as well as the sublime. It also offers advice on human interrelationships such as between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee.

References

{{ethics-book-stub Jewish philosophical and ethical texts Hebrew-language religious books Sifrei Kodesh