The Ramchal's ladder of self-improvement — twenty-six chapters, word by word
My Mesillat Yesharim opens the Ramchal's classic — the introduction and twenty-six chapters that climb from zehirus, through zerizus, nekiyus, perishus, taharah and chasidus, up to anavah, yiras cheit and kedushah. Every paragraph is pointed and translated, and each chapter is named the way the sefer names it, so a person looking for the chapter on humility or on watchfulness finds it by its own heading.
יְסוֹדfoundationהַחֲסִידוּתpietyוְשֹׁרֶשׁand rootהָעֲבוֹדָהthe service
Mesillat Yesharim · Perek 1
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Example
יְסוֹדfoundationהַחֲסִידוּתpietyוְשֹׁרֶשׁand root
What it does
Twenty-six chapters, each named by its own heading
The chapter titles are read from the text itself, not typed into a list that could drift from it — בבאור מדת הזהירות and on to the last chapter, on kedushah.
Pointed and translated throughout
926 paragraphs, every one of them carrying nekudos (Sefaria's Vocalized Edition, public domain), and Rabbi Yosef Sebag's translation (CC-BY) covers every paragraph, each in its own paragraph's place.
Every reading mode, as in every sefer here
Interlinear under each word, Nekudos on or off, the root coloured inside the word, the dikduk marked — and the Practice tab drills the open chapter through the same voice coach as the siddur.
Attribution, said plainly
The Ramchal wrote it in 1740 and it is long out of copyright; the Hebrew is public domain and the English translation is CC-BY, credited on the Sources page. The app names what it stands on.
Who it's for — For anyone climbing the ladder one rung at a time, for a family or a chavrusa taking a chapter a week, and for a school teaching mussar from the sefer itself. Premium and up — the fourth sefer on the Mussar shelf, beside Shemirat HaLashon, Shaar HaBitachon and Orchos Tzaddikim.
