Segula: The Jewish History Magazine 50 (Kislev 5780/December 2019), pp. 54–63
Benjamin Franklin worked hard to refine his character, but it took a rabbi in Poland to turn the founding father’s method into a book. This volume became one of the texts used by the Lithuanian Musar movement — but its origins have been consistently overlooked.
Leading members of the Lithuanian Musar movement loved Rabbi Menahem Mendel Lefin of Satanów’s method of character refinement. But did they know where it came from?
See here for the Hebrew version of the article.