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	Mussar Leadership
		Mussar Leadership, under the direction of Mussar scholar, Rabbi Ira Stone, augments the techniques of Salanter by adding contemporary insights into the roots of human behavior and interpersonal relations and integrating relevant theological context drawn from 20th century Jewish sources.
		Currently, the Mussar program, which was launched in Philadelphia at Beth Zion Beth Israel in 2003, has close to 40 students who attend a weekly shiur and va’ad. Some of whom are entering their fifth year of study.
		Finally, Mussar Leadership is developing tools to use Mussar practice for Jewish organizations to reflect on their institutional values and implement the kind of changes that will allow them to align their practice with those stated values.
	www.mussarleadership.org /index.html (497 words)

	Mussar movement -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The goal of Mussar practice is to release the light of holiness that lives within the soul.
		From its origins in the 10th century, Mussar was a practice of the solitary seeker, until in the 19th century it became the basis for a popular social/spiritual movement
		He referred to his philosophy as mussar, (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel) Hebrew for ethics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/mussar_movement.htm (1295 words)

	The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
		Mussar, which literally means "ethics" in Hebrew, is a religious philosophy of self-improvement, particularly for developing one’s character traits.
		Traditional Mussar practices include emotional, repeated recitations of moralistic passages from the Torah and rabbinic literature, so that their message might infiltrate the brain and the heart.
		One of the outcomes of Mussar practice is that you develop more free will, you can choose to move your life in the direction that you would want to, rather than be governed by habits, or whatever usually drives us.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=8298 (666 words)

	Yoga Journal : Views : The issues affecting the yoga community, interviews with master teachers, and a reviews of yoga ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mussar, which was popularized in Eastern Europe by Rabbi Israel Salanter (1810—1884) and then nearly erased by the Holocaust, is often described as the study of Jewish ethical writings.
		Morinis was drawn to Mussar's strategy of meticulous self-purification in part because he was far more troubled by the moral aspects of his career blowout than the financial ones.
		For example, Mussar, like all Judaic practices, urges followers to further God's purpose on earth through tikkun olam, which is generally understood as repairing the world by serving the weak, the needy, and the oppressed.
	www.yogajournal.com /views/1110_1.cfm (1909 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Mussar (literally, ethics) teachers, who boasted of their ability to "cripple" their own students, promoted a regimen of extreme self-criticism directed at ethical improvement that was practiced, to various degrees, at most of the Lithuanian yeshivas since the late 19th century.
		Mussar's understanding of the ancient Jewish concept of tikkun is a case in point.
		While Mussar teachings do address psychological and ethical problems and may have much to offer the average Jew, very skilled teachers will be required to adapt and recalibrate its harshness to the softer sensitivities of our age.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.07.04/fast1.html (1184 words)

	Mussar Kallah - The Mussar Institute - Rabbi Ephraim Baer, Rabbi Yosef Bechhofer, Rabbi Ephraim Becker - Jewish ...
		The first Mussar Kallah took place in New York in 2003, Mussar Kallah II in Houston in 2004, Mussar Kallah III in San Francisco in 2005 and Mussar Kallah IV in Chicago in 2006 and most recently, Kallah V was held in Miami 2007.
		Until recently, Mussar only existed in the world of Orthodox Judaism, but even there, the ravages of the Holocaust resulted in the living heirs to a millennium of spiritual exploration and innovation being swept from the face of the earth.
		The embers of Mussar have continued to glow, however, and this tradition is being rediscovered today in response to the spiritual yearning that is arising in every corner of the Jewish world.
	www.morinis.ca /learning-kallah.htm (614 words)

	A Path of the Soul #1: Discovering Mussar
		Well before Freud introduced the notion of the unconscious, the Mussar teachers were working with an understanding that there is a dark inner region that is the source of all that appears in the daylight of our lives.
		Mussar's goal is to help us transform so that the light of holiness shines more brightly into our lives and through us into the world.
		The goal of Mussar practice is not to take on pre-ordained characteristics, but to become the most refined, perfected, elevated version of the unique person you already are.
	www.aish.com /spirituality/growth/A_Path_of_the_Soul_1_Discovering_Mussar.asp (2323 words)

	Commentary Magazine - In Praise of Chaim Grade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...trained in mussar's most extreme ascetic form: the years he spent trying to uproot the yetser hara, his "evil inclination," left their mark on his personality, setting him apart from his contemporaries even in later years when he appeared to have firmly joined the secular world...
		...The mussar movement developed in response to two perceived dangers: on the one hand, the threat of the Haskalah, or Enlightenment, that was weaning Jews from religious observance...
		...In the Lithuanian academies, mussar challenged what it felt to be the exclusive emphasis on erudition, striving instead for the development of a moral religious personality...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V63I4P72-1.htm (3276 words)

	The Mussar Institute - Jewish education, Distance learning, Spiritual growth through learning and practice of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Mussar Institute - Jewish education, Distance learning, Spiritual growth through learning and practice of the teachings of Mussar.
		The Mussar Institute promotes spiritual growth through learning and practice of the teachings of Mussar, especially through Jewish
		Mussar is an ancient Jewish tradition dedicated to the cultivation of the qualities of the soul.
	www.mussarinstitute.org (53 words)

	Mussar Resources
		AishDas is committed to using mussar as a means of keeping the forest of Torah in sight while performing the various trees of din.
		As part of that, we are organizing ve'adei mussar (lit: mussar comittees), in a number of neighborhoods.
		It was an attempt to bring Mussar out of the yeshiva and into a communal structure.
	www.aishdas.org /mussar.shtml (622 words)

	Talk:Mussar movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		About 250 years after he died, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter founded a movement called the Mussar movement because he thought that many yeshiva students were acting unethically and justifying it by the fact that they were scholarly.
		Second the purpose of the presentation of these facts is to denigrate both Rabbi Luzzato and the Mussar movement, and that is not NPOV.
		The article as it was, was neutral, unless you consider a neutral description of the mussar movement non-neutral.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Mussar_Movement (1791 words)

	Mussar Institute
		NOTE: To register for the Shabbaton, April 27-28, 2007, which is open only to graduates of at least one program of The Mussar Institute (such as The Course in Mussar or The Ladder), please click here.
		Check/cheque payable to “The Mussar Institute” and marked “Mussar Kallah V”.
		The Mussar Institute reserves the right to cancel this program, in which case all fees paid will be refunded in full.
	www.mussarinstitute.org /kallah-registration.htm (315 words)

	Targum Press - Excerpt of Ohr Yisael
		Through the lens of Mussar], the eye sees [i.e., one truly realizes] that transgression ascends to the Heavens, and the heart desires to strengthen itself in Mussar, so that it might be saved from the netherworld.
		Let a person’s heart not despair if he studies Mussar and is not awakened, or if he feels no impression on his soul motivating him to change his path.
		And it is the study of Mussar that awakens one with yiras Shamayim and the insight to see his flaws, and thus be considered truly alive.
	www.targum.com /excerpts/ohryisroel.html (1031 words)

	Yehi Or - What is Mussar? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mussar is also a time-honored practice within the Jewish tradition.
		It is concerned with personal inventory, personality development through correction of character attributes (midot), perfection of mind, and gemilut chesed (acts of loving kindness).
		The mussar movement came out of Russia in the 1800’s with its primary leader Reb Yisroel Salanter and his disciples.
	www.yehior.org /nejmc/03_mussar (138 words)

	The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A conference at the JCC in Manhattan on June 22 will incorporate a wide variety of spiritual practices when it introduces mussar, a popular component of Orthodox thought, to a largely non-Orthodox audience.
		Mussar, which Morinis defines as “making the heart understand what the mind knows,” is largely unknown outside of Orthodox circles.
		From the Hebrew for “tradition,” mussar is usually translated as “ethics” or “rebuke.”
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8067&print=yes (380 words)

	Mussar
		There is no real joy except the joy of wisdom and if there is true wisdom in a person, this person studies mussar (self-perfection studies).
		Yet, working on mussar (self-mastery, perfection and completion) and doing tshuva (spiritual return from shortcomings and sins) are such great and fundamental requirements of Torah, that, without them, one cannot make serious, true or significant accomplishment in Torah, Judaism, or service of G-d.
		One can only enter into the domain of true and full Torah observance, and accomplishment of his true and full spiritual potential and purpose in life, with sincere and ongoing work in the domain of essential and fundamental self-perfection studies.
	www.geocities.com /buddychai/Religion/Mussar.html (1584 words)

	Ottawa Insight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RoseAnne Mussar said growing competition for jobs means employers can get what they want at a low cost.
		RoseAnne Mussar, an independent consultant who designs computer software, was working at Nortel Networks Inc. in 2001 when the company announced major layoffs, including the cancellation of Mussar’s project, Extreme Voice.
		Mussar said flexibility and the chance to meet new people are the advantages of contract work, but added that it comes with drawbacks.
	www.carleton.ca /ottawainsight/s2.html (895 words)

	Judaism: The Americanization of Mussar: Abraham Twerski's Twelve Steps
		Twerski's effort to identify mussar and Twelve Steps raises the question of whether his work represents a significant change in the mussar tradition or a repackaging of it in a contemporary form.
		Traditional mussar, which was fully formed and elaborated centuries before the birth of the social and psychological sciences, was not begging modern philosophy or secular theory for help in deciphering and reforming human conduct.
		By contrast, Twerski's mussar depends fundamentally on psychological categories in spite of his rejection of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic tool.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0411/is_4_48/ai_59120281/pg_3 (1308 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And Mussar, a system of ethical discipline conceived by Orthodox Jews to help them meet the demanding requirements of observant life, does seem perfectly designed for readers seeking step-by-step instruction for building or rebuilding their spiritual lives.
		However, Mussar is not only for studying, but for practising: its basic principles emanating from the soul of every practitioner, different as they are from every other practitioner.
		Through the discipline of Mussar we are helped to improve these various soul-traits: for example, by working on our anger, impatience, etc. until we become more holy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0767906454 (1020 words)

	Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - HOME & FAMILY
		Laden with Torah, yirah, and mussar, he returned to Krementchug, where his place on the eastern wall as one of the top students of the yeshiva was acknowledged.
		Slobodke, the kingdom of mussar and yirah which strode along the paths charted by Reb Yisroel of Salant, was the first of the yeshivos to make aliya to Eretz Yisroel.
		After the petirah of the Alter in the winter of 5677, Reb Yechezkel gained recognition as the mussar leader in the citadel of the Alter, along with HaRav Leib Chasman, who was esteemed for his deep spiritual influence.
	chareidi.shemayisrael.com /archives5759/rosh/features.htm (3376 words)

	Program > Course Description
		Material is researched and presented as units, using the classical, medieval and contemporary commentaries, with additional interpretations as found in writings of the authors of the Mussar Movement of the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Included are prefaces to various works and examples of Mussar discourses which are studied for both the thought and the language.
		This course concentrates on the writings of the Mussar giants of Eastern Europe, mainly the school of thought of Rav Nosson Tzvi of Slobodka (Der Alter) and Rav Yerucham of Mir.
	www.pninim.org /course.html (2932 words)

	Mussar-Psych Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That is, the field of mussar is devoted to character and behavioral improvement.
		There are various "schools" of mussar (each with its special history and great personalities) which are characterized by particular emphases, each of which are rooted in traditional Torah thought.
		The major classical texts of mussar have also been translated and are also available for purchase on-line; Path of the Just; Ways of the Righteous; Duties of the Heart; etc. I'll ask the fine folks at Project Genesis to put a footnote on this posting describing how you can order any of these titles.
	www.torah.org /learning/mussar-psych/mussar4.htm (315 words)

	Jonathan Rosenblum
		One of the tasks of the Mussar movement, the 19th Century movement of ethical revival founded by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, however, was to break down that dichotomy between different types of mitzvos.
		Above all, though, the Mussar greats combatted love of self by substituting love of one's fellow man. New students arriving in Kelm were inevitably met with such effusive warmth that they wondered whether the one greeting them was a long lost friend whose name they had temporarily forgotten.
		A connection to others, particularly an organic community, is, in Mussar thought, one of the great antidotes to the selfishness that lies at the root of every negative character.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /jonathan/rosenblum092800.asp (1000 words)

	Climbing Jacob's Ladder - ALAN MORINIS - Mobipocket eBooks
		That was not easily achieved, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been wiped out in the Holocaust.
		In time, he did find an accomplished master who stood in an unbroken line of transmission of the Mussar tradition, and who lived at the center of a community of Orthodox Jews on Long Island.
		His hope is that Jews and non-Jews alike will find in Mussar a time-tested path of spiritual practice that will help them discover the hidden radiance within.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/85500-ebook.htm (644 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition by Alan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In this way, I had read and reread, reinterpreted, and come up with images and metaphors that were meaningful to me while still remaining true to the core of their insights.
		Although it was the brilliance of these insights that had drawn me deeper into Mussar, I had now come to the point where I needed more than books.
		I was on my way to deepen my learning of Mussar, and when I remembered that fact, a bright swell of happiness rolled through me. But bang behind it came a wave of hot...
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook3630.htm (1299 words)

	AJHistory by Menachem Butler: History of Musar at YU
		It also gives us a date where, in 1944, Mussar was introduced to the Yeshiva with the hiring of Rabbi Lessin, "the Chafetz Chaim of America," as mashgiah.
		However, as R. Nathan Kamenetsky clarified in a phone interview with R. Aaron Rothkoff (author of a biography on Bernard Revel), the one who Revel brought on faculty to teach mussar at RIETS was R. Yehuda Weil.
		Râ Rothkoff clarified to this author that the mashgiach to whom he referred was Râ Yehudah Weil (born in 5621 [1861]), a talmid of the Radin Yeshiva, who served as mashgiach and examiner [bochain] in RIETS from the time of his arrival in the United States in 5681 (1921) till his demise in 5704 (1944).
	ajhistory.blogspot.com /2005/02/history-of-musar-at-yu.html (591 words)

	Season of Mussar, Alan Morinis, Jonathan Marx, Middot, Ashrei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In his reading he happened upon a tradition of spiritual practice called Mussar that dates from the 10th century and that became a socio-spiritual movement in 19th century Europe.
		That goal was not easily achieved, since almost the entire world of the Mussar tradition had been eliminated in the Holocaust.
		He has written this book because the wisdom and practices that helped him so much have not penetrated the world beyond the confines of Orthodox Judaism and may not be fully appreciated even there at this time.
	www.ashrei.com /aboutalanmorinisjonathanmarx.htm (700 words)

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