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Author(s):	Geoffrey D. Claussen

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0827613504
Pages:	464	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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How do modern Jews understand virtues such as courage, humility, justice, solidarity, or love? In truth: they have fiercely debated how to interpret them. This groundbreaking anthology of musar (Jewish traditions regarding virtue and character) explores the diverse ways seventy-eight modern Jewish thinkers understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth  curiosity and inquisitiveness  humility  courage and valor  temperance and self-restraint  gratitude  forgiveness  love, kindness, and compassion  solidarity and social responsibility  and justice and righteousness. These thinkersfrom the Musar movement to Hasidism to contemporary Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Humanist, and secular Jewsoften agree on the importance of these virtues but fundamentally disagree in their conclusions. The juxtaposition of their views, complemented by Geoffrey Claussens pointed analysis, allows us to see tensions with particular clarityand sometimes to recognize multiple compelling ways of viewing the same virtue.

By expanding the category of musar literature to include not only classic texts and traditional works influenced by them but also the writings of diverse rabbis, scholars, and activistsmen and womenwho continue to shape Jewish tradition,
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