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	Mussar movement - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that have evolved over the past thousand years to help an individual soul to pinpoint and then to break through the barriers that surround and obstruct the flow of inner light in our lives.
		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.
		The Mussar movement arose among the non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews of Lithuania, and became a trend in Orthodox yeshivot (schools of Jewish learning).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mussar (1472 words)

	Mussar Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mussar movement refers to an Jewish ethics educational and cultural movement (a "Jewish Moralist Movement") that developed in 19th century Orthodox Eastern Europe, particularly among the Lithuanian Jews.
		Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that have evolved over the past thousand years to help an individual soul to pinpoint and then to break through the barriers that surround and obstruct the flow of inner light in our lives.
		The Mussar movement arose among the non-Hasidic Orthodox Lithuanian Jews, and became a trend in their yeshivas ("Talmudical schools").
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Mussar_Movement (1513 words)

	Aspaqlaria » Blog Archive » A History of Mussar, part II
		Rav Chaim Vilozhiner, a student of the Vilna Gaon, was the founder of the yeshiva movement.
		The goals of mussar stay on the same one or two themes: be it the school of Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabbeinu Yonah and the Ramchal or that of Rav Saadia Gaon, the Rambam and the Vilna Gaon.
		Mussar is the awareness of where we are, of where we ought to be, and the means to cross that gap.
	www.aishdas.org /asp/2005/05/history-of-mussar-part-ii.shtml (1975 words)

	Mussar Movement
		The term Hebrew term mussar, while literally derived from a word meaning "tradition," usually refers to Jewish ethics in general, or (and more commonly) refers to the Jewish ethics education movement that developed in the 19th century Orthodox Jewish European community.
		This movement arose among the non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews of Lithuania, and became a trend in Orthodox yeshivot (schools of Jewish learning).
		This movement was inspired by the teachings of a Jewish layperson, Joseph Sundel Ben Benjamin Benish Alant (1786-1866).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mu/Mussar_Movement.html (993 words)

	Reviews of Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Jewish Action, Central Council of American Rabbis Journal - The Mussar Institute
		Perhaps inured to the Mussar techniques (too often, in the Orthodox world, they are presented as frozen formulae rather than living realities), Orthodox readers can learn from Morinis's determination to confront his despair under the dispensation of Mussar, and from the Perrs' persistent and loving exploration of Mussar in their lives.
		Mussar, an ethics for living and the methodical path of moral transformation, would appear to be, the mid-life path of choice, the road taken by those buffeted by life’s tempests.
		Mussar is not a dogmatic series of answers but “mature inner guidance in helping us to find our way in uncharted waters.” His response to Morinis’ pointed inquiry as to whether mussar and religious orthodoxy are inextricably wedded is a triumph of both tolerance and tradition, of heart and hardihood.
	www.morinis.ca /books-reviews.htm (10792 words)

	Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com
		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.
		Convinced that Mussar alone addresses the most basic personal problems, the speakers were purists, more committed to the teachings than to their merchandising.
		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 /article/a-new-take-on-old-ethics (1120 words)

	Mussar movement Ethics
		Mussar movement refers to an Jewishethicseducationaland cultural movement(a "Jewish Moralist Movement") that developed in 19th centuryOrthodoxEastern Europe, particularly among the Lithuanian Jews.
		The Mussar movement arose among the non-HasidicOrthodoxLithuanian Jews, and became a trend in their yeshivas("Talmudicalschools").
		This movement began among non-Hasidic Jews as a response to the social changes brought about by The Enlightenment, and the corresponding Haskalahmovement among many European Jews.
	www.lumrix.com /medical/ethics/mussar_movement.html (1375 words)

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		Reb Yisroel is regarded as the founder of the mussar movement, a movement that stressed reflection, self analysis, and ethics.
		Mussar, with it`s emphasis on the demolishing vanity and ego, would enlighten an individual from within as opposed to the maskel who believed enlightenment was to come from the external world.
		Hence, the Zionist movement was born out of the failure of the maskilim to achieve the acceptance they believed would follow their modifications to Judaism.
	www.yasharbooks.com /JewishPressSalanter.html (775 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.
		Rabbi Israel Salanter, who began the Mussar movement in 1842 in Vilna, preached a discipline that focused on awareness, constant introspection and examination of personal shortcomings in an effort to improve and refine the self.
		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)

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		Mussar was seen, at best, as superfluous, and, at worst, as a waste of time.
		Previous generations, it was argued, did not require the outright study or practice of Mussar, for their Torah study was both wholesome and unwavering.
		This view has had profound impact upon the modern Yeshiva movement, and has helped shaped a curriculum which is almost exclusively dominated by Torah study; attempts to diversify the curriculum have met with stiff opposition (see the above discussion about the Mussar movement).
	vbm-torah.org /archive/avot/06avot.htm (1637 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 10 Number 90
		Reb Yisroel Salanter zt"l's Mussar movement, which BTW, he meant no less, if not more, for Ba'alei Battim (the laity) as Yeshiva bachurim, was meant to great extent to combat that lulled and dulled observance.
		The talmidim of the greatest Mussar school of them all, Slabodka, were the most idealistic, spiritual and bold individuals - and the most dynamic and energetic - of their generation.
		I am most stirred and elevated when reading a poem or essay of the Mussar Greats, and who that has read the recently issued "Reb Yaakov" (extraordinarily impressive for an Artscroll!) was not move by this product par excellence of the Mussar movement.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v10/mj_v10i90.html (1917 words)

	.:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Mussar seeks to elevate and purify the person with a unique conception of person as soul.
		Over time, mussar masters say, adherents begin to notice trends in their behavior, and their awareness can mark the first step in their inner transformation.
		The founder of the 19th century mussar movement was Rabbi Salanter, who taught the importance of setting aside daily times for mussar study and the axiom that ethical conduct based on Torah values is the essential goal of the Jewish people.
	www.jewishledger.com /articles/2006/08/30/news/news07.txt (875 words)

	Mussar movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Rabbi Salanter absorbed the ways of Zundel Salant, and became the de facto founder of the Mussar movement.
		During Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) Rabbi Salanter ordered that Jews must not abide by the traditional fast, but instead must eat in order to maintain their health; again this was done for emergency health reasons.
		founder and spiritual father of the Mussar movement
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Mussar_movement (1532 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Mussar Movement was begun in the mid 19th century by R' Yisroel Salanter, a Lithuanian sage.
		The Movement resulted in a number of classic literary works expounding in great detail on the study of Mussar, and these works are regaining popularity today.
		One of the tools developed by this Movement was the study of one's own Middot (Hebrew, plural; Middah-singular.) Middah means "measure" and is referred to as a Soul Trait.
	www.ashrei.com /seasonofmussardetails.htm (812 words)

	Mussar study and practice - Pathlighters program - Balancing traits (middot), Chevruta (partner) study - The Mussar ...
		Anyone with a background in Mussar study and practice (whether through the Mussar Institute or elsewhere) is welcome to apply to the Pathlighters program – because you want to do deep spiritual work on yourself, or because you can see yourself leading Mussar groups in your community, or both.
		Likewise, he should endeavor with all of his being to strengthen the study of Mussar, so that the masses will endeavor to study Mussar, thereby increasing the fear of HaShem.
		Group Leadership: Should you have an interest in leading Mussar groups in your local community, as a Pathlighter we’ll not only train you in Mussar group leadership skills, we'll also equip you with a curriculum we’ve created to guide a group, which has already been used very successfully in several cities.
	www.mussarinstitute.org /learning-pathlighters.htm (413 words)

	Jewish History of Kelme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Adherents to the Musar Movement sought to infuse every aspect of their lives with humility and ethical behavior.
		The Mussar Movement combined modern understanding of psychology with traditional Jewish theology in an effort to attain personal ethical development.
		Today the Mussar Movement continues through the study of Mussar related texts, written by the leading Rabbi's of the day, and historical books, which relate the movements growth and influences.
	www.everythingjewish.com /Kelme/Kelme_Jewishistory.htm (249 words)

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		Each of these works presents a different view or method, but their goal is the same: to heighten the student's awareness of his ethical failings, on the one hand, and accomplishments, on the other.
		R' Simcha Zissel was a student of R' Yisrael and the teacher of most of the third generation leaders of the Mussar movement.
		R' Lopian was probably the last survivor of the third generation of the Mussar movement and of the students of R' Simcha Zissel of Kelm.
	www.acoast.com /pub/sehc/hamaayan/9293/kitavo.923 (961 words)

	ArtScroll.com -- Reb Michel's Shmuessen / The inspiring ethical lectures of a patriarch of Mussar, the Mashgiach of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		ArtScroll.com -- Reb Michel's Shmuessen / The inspiring ethical lectures of a patriarch of Mussar, the Mashgiach of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem.
		The inspiring ethical lectures of a patriarch of Mussar, the Mashgiach of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem.
		The glorious past of the Mussar/Ethics movement’s classic past is still vigorous in the twinkling eyes, fertile mind, and probing ideas of Rabbi Michel Barenbaum.
	www.artscroll.com /Books/RMSH.html (369 words)

	CJNews Books Page - April 5, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		He was captivated by a religious movement that stressed proper ethical behaviour as a path to spiritual fulfilment.
		The Mussar movement was founded in the mid-19th century by a Lithuanian rabbi named Israel Salanter.
		It is both a call to ethical behaviour as well as a program of personal introspective and transformative practices that lead, step by step, along the path of purification and change.
	www.cjnews.com /books/apr5.htm (442 words)

	Judaism 101 - Rabbi Yisrael Salanter - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts - OU.ORG
		Rabbi Yisrael Ben Ze’ev Wolf Lipkin (of Salant) was the founder and spiritual father of the Mussar movement.
		The movement taught techniques for spiritual and character growth.
		There he began to spread the doctrine of Mussar, a moral movement based on the study of traditional ethical literature.
	www.ou.org /about/judaism/rabbis/salanter.htm (178 words)

	Love of our fellow Jews and the judgment of Rosh Hashanah - Jewish Media Resources
		Followers of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, founder of the the 19th Century movement of ethical revival known as the Mussar movement, rejected the familiar distinction between mitzvos between man and G-d and mitzvos between man and G-d.
		At a deeper level, the Mussar greats combatted love of self by substituting love for 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 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 trait.
	www.jewishmediaresources.org /article/212 (827 words)

	Franklin And Mussar Movement - Hashkafah.com
		Franklin And Mussar Movement, Rav Salanter and Mendel Lefin
		The author of the classic mussar sefer Cheshbon HaNefesh was Mendel Lefin of Satonov, a Eastern European Jew who went West for university and became part of the first generation of the early Berlin Haskalah, all students or colleagues in a circle centering on Moses Mendelssohn.
		The hakdomoh to the sefer is a theory of the soul and human perfection that is lifted straight out of the cutting-edge 18th-century Western Enlightenment thought that Lefin would have encountered in university.
	www.hashkafah.com /index.php?showtopic=5455 (1064 words)

	Mussar movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The Hebrew term mussar, while literally derived from a word meaning "tradition", usually refers to Jewish ethics in general, or (and more commonly) refers to the Jewish ethics education movement that developed in the 19th century Orthodox Jewish European community.
		In the quiet of reflection, in reasonable deliberation, each will strengthen his fellow and cure the foolishness of his heart and eliminate his lazy habits." In later years some opposition to the Mussar Movement developed in large segments of the Orthodox community.
		* Modern mussar * founder and spiritual father of the Mussar movement * Musar institute * Mussar Resources * Mussar Way with Allan Morinis * A Path of the Soul - Discovering Mussar
	mussar-movement.iqnaut.net (1387 words)

	Rabbi Yisroel Salanter
		In Kovno, as in Vilna, Reb Yisroel organized individual battei mussar for different strata of society, including one in the "Woodcutters' Kloiz," a structure which stood in testimony next to the sawmill until 1921, when it was destroyed by fire.
		Its distortions of Judaism, its misleading humanism, and its assumption of non-Jewish values were the roots of the Reform Movement, which Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch was battling in Germany40 and the Ksav Sofer was contending with in Hungary.
		In Vilna a mussar yeshivah was established by Reb Yaakov Yoseph, while Reb Nosson Zvi Finkel started the yeshivah in Telshe, and eventually raised the banner of mussar in Slobodka with "Knesses Yisroel," named for the great mentor of them all, Reb Yisroel Salanter.
	www.tzemachdovid.org /gedolim/jo/tprofile/rsalanter.html (6233 words)

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