Mussar Movement - Simcha Zissel Ziv, Yisroel Salanter, Kelm Talmud Torah, Rebecca Bat Meir Tiktiner, Yitzchok Cohen, Zundel Salant, (Paperback)

Chapters: Simcha Zissel Ziv, Yisroel Salanter, Kelm Talmud Torah, Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner, Yitzchok Cohen, Zundel Salant, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Musar Movement (also Mussar Movement) was a Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Eastern Europe, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews. The Hebrew term musar ( ), is from the book of Proverbs 1:2 meaning instruction, discipline, or conduct. The term was used by the Musar movement to refer to efforts to further ethical and spiritual discipline. The Musar Movement made significant contributions to Jewish ethics. The Musar movement arose among the non-Hasidic Orthodox Lithuanian Jews, and became a trend in their yeshiva ("Talmudical schools"). Its founding is attributed to Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810-1883), although the roots of the movements drew on ideas previously expressed in classical Musar literature. Prior to the founding of the Musar movement, mussar was a practice of the solitary seeker; thanks to Salanter, it became the basis for a popular social/spiritual movement. Yisrael Lipkin Salanter a promising young rabbi with exceptional knowledge of Jewish law living in Salantai, Lithuania, was initially inspired to dedicate his life to the cause of spreading Musar by his teacher Rabbi Yosef Zundel Salant (1786-1866), or Zundel Salant. Zundel Salant was a student of Rabbis Chaim Volozhin and Akiva Eiger whose profoundly good-hearted and humble behavior and simple lifestyle attracted Yisrael Salanter's interest, and Zundel Salant allegedly urged Salanter to focus himself on Musar. Widely recognized as a rabbi of exceptional talent, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter became head of a yeshivah in Vilna, where he quickly became well known i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=142868