Download A TIMELINE OF MUSSAR HISTORY
Sa’adia Gaon – 933 – Sefer Deot v’Emunot (The Book of Beliefs and Opinions)
R’ Bahya ibn Paquda – 1080 – Chovot Ha’Levavot (Duties of the Heart)
R’ Shlomo ibn Gabirol – 1045 – Tikkun Middot Ha’Nefesh (Improvement of the Traits of the Soul)
R’ Moshe ben Maimon – 1168 – Shmoneh Perakim (Eight Chapters)
Avraham ben HaRambam – 1230 – Ha’Maspik l’Ovdei HaShem (Guide to Serving God)
Rabenu Yonah Gerondi – 1250 – Shaarei Teshuvah (Gates of Repentance)
Yechiel ben Yekutiel – 1298 – Ma’alot ha-Middot (Book of Higher Virtues)
anonymous – 1540 – Orchot Tzaddikim (Ways of the Righteous)
R’ Moshe Cordovero – 1588 – Tomer Devorah (Palm Tree of Deborah)
R’ Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover – 1705 – Kav HaYashar (The Just Measure)
R’ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto – 1740 – Messilat Yesharim (Path of the Just)
R’ Yosef Zundel – 1786-1865
R’ Menahem Mendel Leffin – 1811 – Cheshbon Ha’Nefesh (Accounting of the Soul)
R’ Eliezer Papo – 1824 – Pele Yoetz
R’ Yisrael Salanter – 1890 – Ohr Yisrael
R. Simcha Zissel Ziv – 1824-1898 – Chochmah u’Mussar (Wisdom and Mussar)
R’ Nosson Zvi Finkel – 1849-1927 – Ohr Ha’Tzafon (The Hidden Light)
R’ Yosef Yozel Hurwitz – 1848 – 1919 Madregas ha’Adam (The Levels of Man)
R’ Yerucham 1875 – 1936 Levovitz Da’as, Chochmah u’Mussar (Knowledge, Wisdom and Mussar)
R’ Eliyahu Dessler – 1959-83 – Michtav mi’Eliyahu (Strive for Truth!)
R’ Shlomo Wolbe – 1968 – Alei Shur
R’ Elya Lopian – 1975 – Lev Eliyahu (Elijah’s Heart)