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In 2004 a dear friend asked me to join a Musar group she was forming. Frankly, I was reluctant to embark on something new because I had become an expert at finding distractions to keep me from...
When my children were born, all I knew is that I wanted to be a good mother to them- create a safe and loving home, expose them to their Jewish heritage, and help them to develop into human beings...
I remember very distinctly when I first heard the term Musar. One late night in December 2003 I opened an email titled "Musar for Moderns" by Rav Elykim Krumbein and had a subheading: "Shiur #11...
Recently, my son's best friend, who is not of drinking age, decided to help himself to a bottle of vodka with another friend and my son while we were having dinner with his parents--a "thank you"...
A. IntroductionLeonard Felson defines Musar as a Jewish practice for self-improvement "which focuses on living a more conscientious life and heightening awareness of the world and one's...
Three stages of practice-attention, action, and transformation-can guide us toward our highest spiritual potential.Recently, my wife Bev had a hip replaced. For three weeks after surgery she couldn...
Reform Jews in congregations across the continent are now embracing a Jewish spiritual practice formulated in 19th-century Lithuania.
Alan Morinis is the founding director of The Mussar Institute, and the author of the books Climbing Jacob's Ladder and Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar as...
What is love? The word is used in so many ways, and it is so fundamental to Judaism, yet its meaning is so elusive that it is often difficult to know what it actually means to say that you love...
