Unpublished article. Many years ago in Gateshead and Manchester I sat at the feet of the renowned teacher of Musar, Rabbi E. E. Dessler (1881-1954) and, together with other youthful enthusiasts, would uncritically swallow whole the master’s very erudite and eloquent discourses, in which there was a blend of Musar, Kabbalah and Hasidism with an…