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Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives the name to the Musar movement, in 19th century Lithuania, but this article considers such literature more broadly.

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Musar literature

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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

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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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Musar

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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

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Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. However, the term often refers specifically...

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Wisdom literature

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Dialogue of Pessimism Ludlul bēl nēmeqi Eastern philosophy Nasîhat Musar literature Proverb Sage writing Sebayt Self-help Teaching stories The Triads of...

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Kabbalah

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Jewish ethics of saintly self-sacrifice influenced Ashkenazi Jewry, Musar literature and later emphases of piety in Judaism. Modern scholars have identified...

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Jewish literature

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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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History of literature

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Jewish literature also includes philosophical literature, mystical (Kabbalistic) literature, ethical (musar) literature, legal (halakhic) literature, and...

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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

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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 ethics

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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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Vice

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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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Pele Yoetz

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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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Reshit Chochmah

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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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Eastern Sephardim

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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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Asher ben Jehiel

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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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Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

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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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Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

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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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Chesed

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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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Bahya ibn Paquda

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familiar with the Jewish rabbinic literature, as well as the philosophical and scientific Arabic, Greek and Roman literature, quoting frequently from the works...

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Judaism

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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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Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover

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Rabbi Ẓebi Hirsch Kaidanover (c. 1650 – 1712), a native of Wilna; was the author of Kav ha-Yashar (Hebrew: קב הישר). He was the son of Rabbi Aaron Samuel...

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Jewish culture

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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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Hebrew literature

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Arba'ah Turim, and the Shulchan Aruch; and works of Musar literature (didactic ethical literature) such as Bahya ibn Paquda's Chovot ha-Levavot (The Duties...

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Moses Cohen

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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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Yosef Leib Bloch

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Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Telshe (Telšiai), Lithuania. Rabbi Bloch was born on February 13, 1860, in Raseiniai...

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Outline of Judaism

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Tanya (Likutei Amarim) Likutey Moharan Shem Mishmuel Tzavaat HaRivash Musar literature: Mesillat Yesharim Shaarei Teshuva Orchot Tzaddikim Sefer Chasidim...

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