Our First Mussar Conversation! ❦ The Mussar Center

START HERE: https://mussar.center What is Mussar? We'll talk about that in the next lesson. In this one I'll just tell you what these conversations are going to be about. Mussar is a Hebrew word and a Jewish discipline, but really Mussar teachings are for everyone. They're the things you should have been taught as a child but probably weren't. So while these talks are for adults, I'll talk on a simple level so kids can understand too.

What do I want? I'd like to see you spending 10 or 20 minutes a day doing a little reading/listening and then a little Mussar work. I hope you can find a Mussar partner to share this experience with too. Walking the path of learning, thinking, talking, and doing Mussar really is that simple.

That's where these conversations come in. In each one I'll show you a Mussar book, tell you what it's about, and use that to teach you all the major Mussar texts, ideas, words, and practices. We're going to cover Mussar literature from five eras. The Biblical, Rabbinic, and Classical eras each lasted about a thousand years. The Mussar Movement lasted about a hundred. And the Modern era is still happening. Mussar is really old but it's also very new!

At the end of this talk I'm going to give you a symbol for Mussar that we'll use as our secret sign and then do two things that we'll end each conversation with - I'll say something I'm celebrating and then make up a little blessing, special for you.

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