Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement

by Etkes, Immanuel; Chipman, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780827604384
• ISBN10: 0827604386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source, Inc.

Summary

Israel Salanter was one of the most original and influential Jewish leaders and thinkers of Eastern European Jewry in the modern period. One of Salanter's most striking innovations was the transformation of the issue of ethics from the domain of theology to the realm of pysychology. Immanuel Etkes traces Salanter's unique view of Mussar doctrine, especially his introduction of modern psychology to the traditional understanding of personal ethical development.

Table of Contents

Significant Dates	ix
Map	x
Introduction	3	(10)
Part One THE THEORETICAL ROOTS OF RABBI ISRAEL SALANTER'S TEACHING
The Genealogy of the Mussar Movement	13	(4)
The Fear of God in the Thought of Rabbi Elijah of Vilna	17	(13)
Torah and the Fear of God in the Thought of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin	30	(27)
Rabbi Zundel Salant as the Embodiment of the Educational Ideal of the Volozhin Yeshiva	57	(11)
The Encounter Between Rabbi Israel Salanter and Rabbi Zundel Salant	68	(11)
Part Two VILNA, 1840-49
The Dissemination of Torah and Laying the Foundation for the Mussar Movement	79	(12)
Salanter's Mussar Doctrine-The Points of Departure and the Initial Stages	91	(17)
The First Cell of the Mussar Movement in Vilna	108	(9)
Part Three THE FOUNDING OF THE MUSSAR MOVEMENT: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Rabbi Israel Salanter's Intellectual Sources	117	(18)
The Intensification of the Haskalah Movement in Russia and the Founding of the Mussar Movement	135	(18)
The Social Background and Its Influence Upon the Founding of the Mussar Movement	153	(24)
Part Four KOVNA, 1849-57
The Growth of the Mussar Movement in Lithuania During the 1850s	177	(23)
Salanter's Thought in the 1850s: The ``Mussar Epistle''	200	(13)
Theory and Practice in the Cultivation of Scholars and Rabbis	213	(16)
Mussar Education in the Nevyozer Kloiz	229	(12)
Part Five THE PERIOD OF WANDERINGS, 1857-83
Salanter in the Jewish Communities of Western Europe	241	(15)
Strengthening Orthodox Society in Russia	256	(33)
The Mussar Doctrine, 1859-81	289	(24)
Epilogue	313	(12)
Notes	325	(48)
Bibliography	373	(8)
Index	381