Creator Bio
Joseph ben Meir Sason
Nothing is known about Joseph Sason. In addition to Sefer musar haskel, Amarachi and Sason produced another text of musar (ethics), Darkhe ha-adam. Both works first appeared in Salonika in 1843 and were reprinted twice there.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Sefer musar haskel (Book of Moral Lessons)
We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
Related Guide
Haskalah and Pedagogy, 1750–1880
The first maskilim ransacked both Jewish and European tradition to find new platforms for creating and transmitting the Jewish cultural ideals they conceived. Jews enlisted diverse literary genres to call for social, educational, and economic change.