News (2021)1 January 2022|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIA large part of our people, almost everyone of them, would not partake of food without washing their hands, God forbid, even though the delay by this...1 December 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIIt would be an absolute faux pas to speak about musar literature in Judaism as if this was referring to an "ethical literature." There is no Hebrew...1 November 2021|Musar NewsCongratulationsPhoto: JQYAWe congratulate Patrick B Koch who has been awarded a fellowship at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt...1 November 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIWe must admit that the intellect is powerless to produce reliable results in any moral problem. An approach to truth can be made only insofar as the...5 October 2021|Musar NewsNew Book: Studies in Musar Volume IPhoto: BrillJoseph Citron, Isaiah Horowitz’s Shnei Luhot Ha-Berit and the Pietistic Transformation of Jewish Theology—Revealing a Concealed Covenant1 October 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIEquanimity is an important principle. This means that it should be all the same to you whether you are regarded as devoid of knowledge or learned in...1 September 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIJust as the body is susceptible of sickness and afflictions, so is the soul. The affliction of the soul and its sickness are its evil traits and its...1 August 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIOne must be careful in his deeds during the day, because his soul will ascend on high at night, […] and each night just before sleep, one must examine...1 July 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIKnow, in truth, that a person might learn more and increase the lore of Torah with humble scholars, even though they do not know a lot of things...1 June 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLIAnd he said, "acquire for yourself a friend" (Pirqei Avot 1:6). He said it with an expression of acquisition and he did not say, "Make for yourself a...27 May 2021|Musar NewsNew PublicationPhoto: Ricerche Storico Bibliche“Samaritans in Rabbinic Texts” by Ilaria Briata20 May 2021|Musar NewsNew PublicationPhoto: Harvard Theological Review"'Gathering the Dispersed of Israel'—The Evolution of a Kabbalistic Prayer Addendum for Tiqqun Qeri" by Patrick B. Koch1 May 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI“When I found that […] the knowledge of the duties of the heart was neglected, not contained in any book comprising all its origin, forsaken, with...1 April 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI"And behold, when the sinner keeps before his eyes the terrible events, unnatural deaths, avengings, desolate ruins, defeats, destructions, losses...1 March 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI“Just as one needs to keep away from the physical aspect of the transgressions, one must abstain from thinking about them [ ... ]. And if one is...1 February 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI"Few belong to the species that devotes regular thought and study to the perfection of [Divine] service, love and fear [of God], communion [with Him]...1 January 2021|Musar NewsQuote of the MonthPhoto: NLI כִּי נֵר מִצְוָה וְתוֹרָה אוֹר וְדֶרֶךְ חַיִּים תּוֹכְחוֹת מוּסָר "For the commandment is a lamp, the teaching is a light, And the way to life is...