One of the most notorious early modern musar compilations, Sheveṭ Musar, challenges its readers with an obscure and gory imagery that can be classified as horror. This article proposes an exploration of these horrific images of death, decomposition, and hell. In order to contextualize a selection of passages from Sheveṭ Musar, a state of the art concerning research on Jewish horror will be provided and integrated with references to horror scholarship in areas of literature where this topic has received more investigation. What characterizes horror in Sheveṭ Musar appears to be the didactic functionality of exciting negative emotions such as fear and disgust. This moralizing rhetorical mechanism will be illustrated through four different topics appearing throughout the tractate: (1) the literary strategy of terror; (2) the description of the physical and metaphysical processes of death; (3) a memento of the caducity of human life; and (4) anticipation of infernal damnation.

其中最臭名昭著的早期现代的musar汇编，SheveṭMusar，挑战它的读者与可归类为恐怖一个不起眼的和血腥图像。本文提出了对这些死亡，分解和地狱的恐怖图像的探索。为了从SheveṭMusar的文章中选出合适的背景，我们将提供有关犹太恐怖研究的最新技术，并将其与对该领域进行了更多研究的文学领域的恐怖学术研究相结合。SheveṭMusar恐怖的特征是什么似乎是令人兴奋的负面情绪（如恐惧和厌恶）的教学功能。这种道德化的修辞机制将通过贯穿整个句段的四个不同主题加以说明：（1）恐怖的文学策略；（2）对死亡的物理和形而上学过程的描述；（3）纪念人类生命的纪念品；（4）预期地狱的诅咒。