Title Sharing the burden : Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the path of musar / Geoffrey D. Claussen

Published Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought. Contents 1. Rabbi simhah Zissel Ziv and the Talmud Torah -- 2. Virtue and the path of happiness -- 3. Simhah Zissel among the philosophers -- 4. The great effort of musar -- 5. Learning to love Summary Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that movement's leading moral theorist, Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv (1824-1898), the founder of the first Musar movement yeshiva and the first traditionalist institution in Eastern Europe that included general studies in its curriculum. Simḥah Zissel offered a unique and compelling voice within the Musar movement, joining traditionalism with a program for contemplative practice and an interest in non-Jewish philosophy. His thought was also distinguished by its demanding moral vision, oriented around an ideal of compassionately loving one's fellow as oneself and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of moral change. Drawing on Simḥah Zissel's writings and bringing his approach into dialogue with other models of ethics, Claussen explores Simḥah Zissel's Jewish virtue ethics and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses. The result is a volume that will expose readers to a fascinating and important voice in the history of modern Jewish ethics and spirituality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Broida, Simḥah Zissel ben Israel, 1824-1898 -- Philosophy Broida, Simḥah Zissel ben Israel, 1824-1898 Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Philosophy Ethicists -- Lithuania -- Philosophy Jewish ethics. Musar movement -- History RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. Jewish ethics Musar movement Philosophy Lithuania Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438458366 1438458363

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