Start your Mussar Journey with CCM
CCM renews spiritual practice and Jewish text to transform relationships, awakening each person to their profound responsibility for the other. We offer introductory and continuing classes that focus on Mussar texts, theology, and practice. Students commit for a semester at a time; a complete curriculum is offered over four years.
Check out the list of available classes below!
Available classes
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Omer Series: Mussar Teachings from Liberation to Revelation
Please join the Center for Contemporary Mussar for five conversations with nine different CCM-connected Rabbis to guide us during the holy period between Passover and Shavuot. Beginning April 17, CCM will host a series of five classes, highlighting new teachings and speakers presented in conversation.
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Weekly Mussar Meditations
10-10:30 a.m. ET | Tuesdays
Mussar is fundamentally a mindfulness practice; that is, in order to truly practice Mussar, one needs to be ever more aware of what is actually happening – not just immediately responding to projections, fears, and entitlements. I think some sort of meditation practice is necessary as a precursor to practicing Mussar, but increasingly I feel like it’s even more than that – Mussar is what meditation looks like when one leaves the cushion and enters the realm of relationship.
*Free & open to new students!
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Mussar Torah Study
7-7:30 p.m. ET, Tuesdays | Oct. 22, 2024 - May, 2025
Joshua Boettiger & guests
Join us as each week where one of our rotating band of scholars will lead a half-hour teaching/discussion on the weekly parsha, from a Mussar perspective.
*Open to new students!
On-going Va’ads
(not open to new students, unless noted)
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Foundations/Kibbush 1
4-5:30 p.m. CST, Tuesdays | Jan. 7 - May 20, 2025
Barbara Rubin-Greenberg & Heidi Schneider
*Open to new students!
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Foundations/Kibbush 1
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST, Sundays | Feb. 2 - April 13, 2025
*Open to new students! (This class will be hybrid, in Texas and over Zoom.)
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Tomer Devorah Plus
7:30-9:30 p.m. ET, Mondays | Feb. 17 - May 12
*New students must contact the madrich before registering: martin.jacobs@verizon.net
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Transformations/Tikkun 1
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. MT | Jan. 6 - March 31, 2025
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Foundations/Kibbush 3
7:30 - 9 p.m. CT, Tuesdays | Jan. 14 - April 1, 2025
*This class is not available to new students
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Transformations/Tikkun 2
10-11:30 a.m. ET | Jan. 13 - May 19, 2025
*This class is not available to new students
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Transformations/Tikkun 3
4:15-5:45 p.m. ET, Wednesdays | Jan. 15 - May 21, 2025
*This class is not available to new students
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The Aleph Va'ad: Intro to Bachya ibn Paquda
In addition to the classes listed above, CCM also offers:
Madrichim Training Course — available to those who have completed the 3-year CCM curriculum and who are accepted into the teacher training program.
Rabbis Mussar Cohort — a year-long course offered to Rabbis with Mussar experience who are looking for deeper training and community.
Local Mussar classes — our madrichim are spread out throughout the United States and Canada, and many teach Mussar classes at their local synagogues.