In Slabodka, they did mussar for a lot longer than a half hour. But as I quoted above, in Slabodka they were very sick. Having a mussar seder at all is really against what the Chofetz Chaim was saying. You think that every person in the Yeshiva is equally sick? Every person should grab a few minutes of mussar commensurate to the level of his sickness. Institutionalizing it defeats the whole purpose. Maybe for practical reasons they can’t follow my suggestion. I don’t know.
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