• Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives...
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    Musar movement to convey the teachings regarding ethical and spiritual paths. The Musar movement made significant contributions to Musar literature and...
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  • Look up musar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Musar may refer to Jewish ethics Musar literature, Jewish moral literature Musar movement, a Jewish religious...
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    Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to...
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  • Abraham. Similar concepts exist in the Rabbinic literature, Tosefta, the Yerushalmi, and Musar literature. Rabbi Yitzhak Arama also finds references in...
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    as wisdom literature Apophthegmata Patrum Conduct book Dialogue of Pessimism Ludlul bēl nēmeqi Eastern philosophy Nasîhat Musar literature Proverb Sage...
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  • Pele Yoetz is a book of Jewish Musar literature (Ethics) first published in Constantinople in 1824 by Rabbi Eliezer Papo. The work is a "classical moral...
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  • Asher ben Jehiel (category Writers of Musar literature)
    essence of distancing.” Orchot Chaim is today an important work of musar literature. A commentary on Zeraim (the first order of the Mishnah)—with the exception...
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    Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (category Writers of Musar literature)
    work History of the Jews in Italy Italian Jews List of Italian Jews Musar literature Mussar movement "Biography of the Ramchal". www.ramhal.com. Archived...
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  • Jewish literature also includes philosophical literature, mystical (Kabbalistic) literature, ethical (musar) literature, legal (halakhic) literature, and...
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    was given expression through Musar literature, which presents virtues and vices in a didactic way. The Hebrew term musar, derived from a word meaning...
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    important book of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), ethics and morality (Musar literature), written by the 16th century scholar Rabbi Eliyahu de Vidas. It is...
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    Bahya ibn Paquda (category Writers of Musar literature)
    thoroughly familiar with Jewish rabbinic literature and philosophical and scientific Arabic, Greek, and Roman literature, frequently quoting from the works...
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    Avoiding vice is an important theme in Jewish ethics, especially within musar literature. Christians believe there are two kinds of vice:[citation needed] Vices...
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  • genres of Jewish literature. Musar literature which was written in the Ladino tongue paralleled the emergence of Hasidic literature among the Ashkenazim...
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    Medieval Jewish literature also includes: Jewish philosophical literature mystical (Kabbalistic) literature musar literature, ethical literature dealing with...
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    Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (category Writers of Musar literature)
    father, Reuven Dov Dessler, was a disciple of one of the main leaders of the Musar movement, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, best known as the Alter (Elder) of Kelm...
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    Nobel Prize in Literature, 13% were or are Jewish. Another aspect of Jewish literature is the ethical, called Musar literature. This literature has been composed...
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  • change its properties. The golden mean is also a core principle in Musar literature in which practitioners are encouraged to bring every character trait...
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    Yisrael Meir Kagan (category Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature)
    in Eastern Europe. An author of many works of musar literature, he was sometimes associated with the Musar movement, although he did not support all aspects...
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    common exoteric popular view of Kabbalah, as depicted in early modern Musar literature. In contemporary Orthodox Judaism there is dispute as to the status...
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  • Eliezer Papo (category Writers of Musar literature)
    Ottoman Empire). He is famous for writing the Pele Yoetz, a work of musar (ethical) literature which gives advice on how to behave as a Jew in many aspects of...
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  • Moses Cohen (category Writers of Musar literature)
    Moses ben Eliezer Cohen (Hebrew: משה בן אליעזר כהן) was a Jewish writer and moralist who lived in Germany, probably at Coblenz, in the second half of the...
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  • suggestions include grace and compassion. In traditional musar literature (ethical literature), chesed is one of the primary virtues. The tannaic rabbi...
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    commentaries Shulchan Aruch and commentaries Responsa literature Thought and ethics Jewish philosophy Musar literature and other works of Jewish ethics Kabbalah Hasidic...
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    works. Tomer Devorah ("Palm tree [of] Deborah") - a popular work of Musar Literature based on kabbalistic principles. It was translated into English by...
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  • Ira F. Stone (category Writers of Musar literature)
    Stone (born 1949) is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. Stone was ordained as a rabbi at the...
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  • Yosef Leib Bloch (category Writers of Musar literature)
    Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch (February 13, 1860 – November 10, 1929) was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Telshe (Telšiai), Lithuania. Rabbi Bloch...
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  • defining stages in personal spiritual repentance and atonement from sin. Musar literature generally see its role in broader self-understanding, spiritual growth...
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  • Jehiel Michel Epstein (17th century) (category Writers of Musar literature)
    Jeḥiel Michel Segal Epstein (Yiddish: יחיאל מיכל סג"ל עפשטיין) was a Jewish writer and ethicist who lived in the seventeenth century. Jehiel Michel was...
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