Editing Musar movement (section)

== Origin ==
The Musar movement arose among non-Hasidic [[Misnagdim]] Orthodox Lithuanian Jews as a response to the social changes brought about by [[the Enlightenment]] and the corresponding [[Haskalah]] movement among many European Jews. In this period of history, [[anti-Semitism]], assimilation, and the impoverished living conditions of many Jews in the [[Pale of Settlement]] caused severe tension and disappointment. Many of the institutions of Lithuanian Jewry were beginning to break up. Religious Jews feared that their way of life was slipping away from them, observance of [[halakha|traditional Jewish law and custom]] was on the decline, and even those who remained loyal to the tradition were losing their emotional connection to its inner meaning and ethical core.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=CESARANI|first=DAVID|date=2001-12-01|title=The Forgotten Port Jews of London: Court Jews Who Were Also Port Jews|journal=Jewish Culture and History|volume=4|issue=2|pages=111–124|doi=10.1080/1462169X.2001.10512233|s2cid=162276028|issn=1462-169X}}</ref>