News28 November 2023|Musar NewsConcluding EventPhoto: Anna AvlasovichPlease join us for the concluding event of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period: Retrospect...27 November 2023|Musar NewsMus|ar|t Blog Online NowPhoto: Raquel Gómez DelgadoWe are pleased to announce that the "Mus|ar|t — Art Meets Scholarship" blog is online now.24 November 2023|Musar NewsCongratulationsPhoto: DFGWe congratulate Dr. Ilaria Briata, who has been awarded an Individual Research Grant by the German Research Foundation for the project "Horror and...15 November 2023|Musar NewsSeminar "Metalogic of the Trace"Photo: Anna AvlasovichWe 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...1 November 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIKnow 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”...20 October 2023|Musar NewsThe Secret of YHWHPhoto: rbb and hrJens Rosbach's program "The Secret of YHWH," featuring Patrick B. Koch of the Emmy Noether Group "Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern...17 October 2023|Musar NewsWorkshop "Mode[s] of Musar"Photo: Anna AvlasovichWe 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...1 October 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIAbraham, 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...1 September 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIOne must understand and believe that negative character traits are truly harmful to the individual. The more sensitive one becomes to the unfavorable...3 August 2023|Musar NewsNew PublicationPhoto: SUNY PressChapter on “Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto" by Patrick B. Koch in Jewish Virtue Ethics1 August 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI[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...10 July 2023|Musar NewsEAJS Conference 2023Photo: EAJSWe cordially invite you to join our EAJS Distinguished Panel "New Approaches in the Study of Musar" at the 12th EAJS Congress "Branching Out...3 July 2023|Musar NewsNew PublicationPhoto: RUB“'All My Thinking Has But One Focus': Contemplative Seclusion in (Early) Modern Jewish Spirituality" by Patrick B. Koch1 July 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIA 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...29 June 2023|Musar NewsCongratulationsPhoto: DFGWe congratulate Patrick B Koch who has been accepted to the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation.28 June 2023|Musar NewsCongratulationsPhoto: NLIWe congratulate Dr. Ilaria Briata, who has been accepted for a Salo & Jeannette Baron Visiting Fellowship for Trinity Term 2024 at the Oxford Centre...1 June 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIThe 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...25 May 2023|Musar NewsNew PublicationPhoto: Giuntina"Las madres judías de la época bíblica by Semah Rabiner" by Ilaria Briata5 May 2023|Musar News"History of Knowledge" Blog PostPhoto: NLI / GHI“Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity” is featured on the "History of Knowledge" Blog of the German Historical Institute Washington.1 May 2023|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIMusar is the wisdom of implementing the Torah in its entirety. (Shlomo Wolbe, Sefer Alei Shur)Show all news