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Claussen Geoffrey D. <1979-> |
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Sharing the burden : Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv and the path of Musar / / Geoffrey D. Claussen |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rabbis - Lithuania - Philosophy |
Ethicists - Lithuania - Philosophy |
Jewish ethics |
Musar movement - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Musar Movement; Rabbi Simh. ah Zissel Ziv; Chapter 1 Rabbi Simh. ah Zissel Ziv and the Talmud Torah; The History of the Talmud Torah; Talmud Study and Musar Study; The Talmud Torah as a Total Institution; Models of Authority; Simh. ah Zissel and the Haskalah; The Closing of the Talmud Torah of Grobin and the Return to Kelm; Chapter 2 Virtue and the Path of Happiness; Wisdom and Musar; Wisdom about Human Lowliness; Wisdom about the Human Form; The Limits of Wisdom; What Is a Virtue?; Choosing Virtue; The Repair of the Soul; Practical Wisdom |
Putting Virtue into ActionHappiness and Virtue; The World to Come; The Motivations for Virtue; Chapter 3 Simh. ah Zissel Among the Philosophers; "Mocking" the Philosophers; The Philosophers as Musar Masters; Reborn Like a Philosopher; The "Clear View of What Is Good"; The Rationality of the Torah; Rational Prophets and Rational Rabbis; "Reason Which Is Beyond Human Capacity"; Simh.ah Zissel Among the Kabbalists; Miracles and Nature; Chapter 4 The Great Effort of Musar; The Pursuit of the Ideal; Human Exemplars; The Divine Exemplar; Striving Toward the Infinite; The Struggle for Moral Progress |
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