tag:www.musar.uni-hamburg.de,2005:/newsNews2024-01-05T12:26:25ZNAGR-fakgw-22712880-production2023-11-30T23:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />And even if you faltered with wrongdoing, and you were beguiled by your evil drive, and you persisted in your iniquities, and you multiplied your sins and your vice, and you added wickedness to your sin, you shall not despair because for this reason. You might say that your repentance is no longer accepted, and that you could no longer turn and repent, but you should come to your senses: the mercy of the Blessed One cannot be measured.<br>
(Shmuʾel de Uçeda, Midrash Shmʾuel)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-22683283-production2023-11-27T23:00:00ZConcluding Event<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22683296/concluding-event-733x414-ab0cfa877ef76efc354c7b031f78c8acd7ce48a9.jpg" />Please join us for the concluding event of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period: Retrospect, Results, Outlook," to be held on November 28, 2023 at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg at 18.00.<p>Photo: Anna Avlasovich</p>NAGR-fakgw-22725411-production2023-11-26T23:00:00ZMus|ar|t Blog Online Now<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22725472/mesilat-yesharim-733x414-58cbcfea4127d531a8896e9558f39de7d636567c.jpg" />We are pleased to announce that the "Mus|ar|t — Art Meets Scholarship" blog is online now.<p>Photo: Raquel Gómez Delgado</p>NAGR-fakgw-22712914-production2023-11-23T23:00:00ZCongratulations<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22712977/dfg-733x414-ca78ae0f598e58b216d00fc05b8ca15a29c2314c.jpg" />We congratulate Dr. Ilaria Briata, who has been awarded an Individual Research Grant by the German Research Foundation for the project "Horror and Literary Manifestations of Fear in Early Modern Judaism."<p>Photo: DFG</p>NAGR-fakgw-22588747-production2023-11-14T23:00:00ZSeminar "Metalogic of the Trace"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22588780/metalogic-of-the-trace-733x414-402dd31a7fe033e00762fee11357cf274ec7f1d7.jpg" />We cordially invite you to the Seminar "Metalogic of the Trace: The Disclosure of the World (ha-'olam) in the Concealment (he'elem) of Infinity" with Prof. Elliot Wolfson, which will be held on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg. <p>Photo: Anna Avlasovich</p>NAGR-fakgw-22588227-production2023-10-31T23:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />Know that the word satan derives from [the verb “satah,” to turn away, figuring for instance in the verse] .”Steh [turn away] from it and pass on” (Proverbs 4:15); I mean to say that it derives from the notion of turning away and going away. For it is he who indubitably turns people away from the ways of truth and makes them perish in the ways of error. […] They also say that the evil inclination is produced in the human individual at birth: “Sin croucheth at the door” (Genesis 4:7); as the Torah states literally: “From his youth” (Genesis 8:21). On the other hand, good inclination is only found in a person when his intellect is perfected.<br>
(Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed III:22)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-22475803-production2023-10-19T22:00:00ZThe Secret of YHWH<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22475887/hr-rbb-733x414-7f824fb310bacd97640905068a928912bba5b73a.jpg" />Jens Rosbach's program "The Secret of YHWH," featuring Patrick B. Koch of the Emmy Noether Group "Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period," has been broadcasted on hr2 kultur and rbb kultur.<p>Photo: rbb and hr</p>NAGR-fakgw-22364841-production2023-10-16T22:00:00ZWorkshop "Mode[s] of Musar"<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/22364807/modes-of-musar-733x414-58f50206e2ce8213eb4a14c6b3e23fde748fc780.jpg" />We cordially invite you to the Workshop "Mode[s] of Musar: From Ancient to Contemporary Discourse," which will be held between October 17-19, 2023 at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg. <p>Photo: Anna Avlasovich</p>NAGR-fakgw-22364695-production2023-09-30T22:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />Abraham, our father, said, ‘I am but dust and ashes’ (Genesis 18:27). It is indeed an excellent application of humility when a person thinks no more of themselves than the dust of the earth, than which there is nothing lower. Yet when a person sows in earth, that which is sown grows there. So, too, for such person, it is still possible to be affected when something grows for them. But (bases on b Ḥullin 89a) Moses said, ‘And we are nothing’ (Exodus 16:8), and from nothing, nothing grows. For such a person, everything that befalls them is the same. Whether one is given fame and honor or their opposite, one remains totally unaffected.
(Dov Baer of Liovol)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-22150579-production2023-08-31T22:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />One must understand and believe that negative character traits are truly harmful to the individual. The more sensitive one becomes to the unfavorable consequences of a trait, the closer he is to correcting it. One must come to the realization that the negative character trait is ultimately destructive to him. For example, a person who is easily angered lives a life of strain and emotional stress. A person who feels undue pride is ridiculed by his peers. A jealous person never experiences prolonged periods of satisfaction.
(Shaul Wagschal, The Practical Guide to Teshuvah)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-21946695-production2023-08-02T22:00:00ZNew Publication<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21946685/virtueethics-11-0f8df76bc5ab368682a07a25817438fa744de216.jpg" />Chapter on “Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto" by Patrick B. Koch in Jewish Virtue Ethics<p>Photo: SUNY Press</p>NAGR-fakgw-21941952-production2023-07-31T22:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />[The verse] ‘And the way of life (derekh ḥayyim) is the rebuke that disciplines’ (Prov 6:23), refers to the way that one walks to the Land of the Living, that is the World to Come, hence it is called by that name, ‘the way toward life’. It is mastered and rectified by means of ‘the rebuke that disciplines’, which are the punishments that God inflicts upon a person.
(Ḥayyim Vital, Derekh Ḥayyim)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-21862297-production2023-07-09T22:00:00ZEAJS Conference 2023<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21862324/eajs-2023-733x414-9defeb5265ec541d932c28c66fbc0ace65277ce4.jpg" />We cordially invite you to join our EAJS Distinguished Panel "New Approaches in the Study of Musar" at the 12th EAJS Congress "Branching Out: Diversity of Jewish Studies" at Goethe-University in Frankfurt Main.
<p>Photo: EAJS</p>NAGR-fakgw-21834743-production2023-07-02T22:00:00ZNew Publication<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21834816/entangled-religions-733x414-b8701f91ed2ec6ad1b9d124c3d2bd29db17f87aa.jpg" />“'All My Thinking Has But One Focus': Contemplative Seclusion in (Early) Modern Jewish Spirituality" by Patrick B. Koch<p>Photo: RUB</p>NAGR-fakgw-21744154-production2023-06-30T22:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />A Tsaddik [a righteous, pious person] can become one of his own will. Not so an evil man, who cannot become one by himself—whoever is evil learns this from the deeds of another. This […] is what Nitai the Arbelite hinted at when saying “Keep away from an evil neighbor and do not associate with the wicked” (Avot 1:7) […] meaning […] keep away from an evil neighbor even though you are sure that you will not learn from his actions, for then the evil one is alone.
(Pinḥas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselice, Tif’eret Baḥurim)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-21811501-production2023-06-28T22:00:00ZCongratulations<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21811554/logo-heisenberg-gross-733x414-15579884f34e5fce5dfead47d5d3885b286caceb.jpg" />We congratulate Patrick B Koch who has been accepted to the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation.<p>Photo: DFG</p>NAGR-fakgw-21811483-production2023-06-27T22:00:00ZCongratulations<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21811632/sippur-nora-bd88c9463e638dff2f44f725e3238af22e19185e.jpg" />We congratulate Dr. Ilaria Briata, who has been accepted for a Salo & Jeannette Baron Visiting Fellowship for Trinity Term 2024 at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-21665100-production2023-05-31T22:00:00ZQuote of the Month<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/14558621/darshan-1-d4d22dd9c049397fd49b34c1eaa2db30c09f46cf.jpg" />The most powerful source of help in attaining the lofty level of loving God is feeling intense awe and dread of Him, a fear that pervades your fulfilling of His commandments. If you always think that His watchful eye is fixed on the inner recesses of your mind, that He is aware of your thoughts, whether hidden or revealed, and that He follows the dictates of your conscience; if you dwell on His subtle direction present in every move you make, His lovingkindness to you, His hidden knowledge of your past and future, and His constant effort to bring you close to Him, you will not be able to resists the flow of love that will invade you, and you will surrender yourself to Him with total confidence.
(Elijah de Vidas, Reshit Ḥokhmah, Gate of Love)<p>Photo: NLI</p>NAGR-fakgw-21643566-production2023-05-24T22:00:00ZNew Publication<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakgw/21643673/briata-semah-rabbiner-2-5e1b15487f6b948c9ddae1e5c8d1ddb42f66e951.jpg" />"Las madres judías de la época bíblica by Semah Rabiner" by Ilaria Briata<p>Photo: Giuntina</p>