by mussar | Apr 27, 2021 | May, Newsletter, Student Platform
Tazria and Metzora deal specifically with the rituals for separating the “impure” from the community, and the many, many details of purifying and readmitting them. From this viewpoint, Tazria and Metzora are disturbing and seem to offer little food for spiritual...
by mussar | Apr 1, 2021 | April, Newsletter, Student Platform
In this Torah portion, God continues to describe the different laws of sacrifices. A distinction is made between sin offerings, burnt offerings, and homage offerings, with each following its own process–all carefully elucidated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai,...
by mussar | Mar 9, 2021 | March, Newsletter, Student Platform
Kindness, by Sarah Ghosh A blanket full of loving kindness, Spreading a cottony lattice of pure softness over my other. Infinite love flowing from soul to soul, Droplets thread and knot to form a bond, We are Connected. Our Va’ad of three years recently studied...
by mussar | Feb 3, 2021 | February, Newsletter, Student Platform
Purim: A Hidden Mussar Journey, by Heidi Schneider Queen Esther’s journey that we are about to recall during the festival of Purim parallels my own Mussar path. In the Five Books of Miriam, scholar Ellen Frankel calls Esther, “the Hidden One.” Esther did not reveal...
by mussar | Jan 6, 2021 | January, Newsletter, Student Platform
Mussar is Judaism’s best-kept secret – not well-known within the Jewish community, much less outside of it. But as a non-Jew who is studying Mussar through the Center for Contemporary Mussar, I’m very grateful that I found it and can experience its life-transforming...
by mussar | Dec 1, 2020 | December, Newsletter, Student Platform
Considering the Burden of the Deceivers and the Deceived By Sandy Goldstein I intended to base my d’var on a positive and noble characteristic, like Truth. After all, Truth seems to be a major issue in Parsha Tol’dot. The prophet declares: “The Lord God is...
