The Right Choice

If we had to pick one commandment or rule that exemplifies the musar imperative -- the obligation to grow as a person ethically and spiritually -- it would be to focus on being a better person. To always choose what your moral intuition wants and not what your body or ego desires.

In addition, to allow life to lead its course and not to interfere due to irascibility, haughtiness, revenge, etc.  Every person is endowed with a musar intuition which whispers to him how to behave.  And it's this intuition to which we must learn to listen.

This is alluded to in our parsha, which gives a general rule for good behavior that covers everything you do.

"You should do the straight and the good."  Deuteronomy 6:18,

*Based on Rabbi Wolbe