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| 0690-2638-01 | Hassidism and the Musar Movement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Hassidism and the Musar Movement.
Prof. Ron Margolin
This course is a general introduction to two innovative spiritual movements that arose in Eastern Europe in the late 18th and early 19th century. The course will focus on the central figures and ideas of these movements and examine their historical development. Hassidism is a social and spiritual movement that offered an alternative leadership to the traditional rabbinical leadership of Eastern European Jewry. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid from Mezeritch, Rabbi Yaacov from Polnae, Rabbi Pinchas from Koritz and many of their students generated a spiritual and social revolution in the Jewish world. This revolution was based on a worldview that put man's spiritual relationship to God, as well as to the Tzadik and his community, at the center of religious life. The Musar movement, founded by Rabbi Israel Salanter, was a spiritual response that arose from the world of the erudite Mitnagdim in Lithuania in the middle and late 19th century. The course will look at the differences and similarities of these two movements, as well as their contribution to Judaism in the 20th century and today.
Bibliography: Gershom Scholem, The Latest Phase; Moshe Idel, Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic; Ron Margolin, The Human Temple; Tsippi Kauffman, In All Your Ways Know Him; Zeev Gries, Book, Writer and Story; Rachel Elior, Harut al Haluhot; Dov Kats, The Musar Movement; Emanuel Etkes, Rabi Israel Salanter.
Prof. Ron Margolin
This course is a general introduction to two innovative spiritual movements that arose in Eastern Europe in the late 18th and early 19th century. The course will focus on the central figures and ideas of these movements and examine their historical development. Hassidism is a social and spiritual movement that offered an alternative leadership to the traditional rabbinical leadership of Eastern European Jewry. Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid from Mezeritch, Rabbi Yaacov from Polnae, Rabbi Pinchas from Koritz and many of their students generated a spiritual and social revolution in the Jewish world. This revolution was based on a worldview that put man's spiritual relationship to God, as well as to the Tzadik and his community, at the center of religious life. The Musar movement, founded by Rabbi Israel Salanter, was a spiritual response that arose from the world of the erudite Mitnagdim in Lithuania in the middle and late 19th century. The course will look at the differences and similarities of these two movements, as well as their contribution to Judaism in the 20th century and today.
Bibliography: Gershom Scholem, The Latest Phase; Moshe Idel, Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic; Ron Margolin, The Human Temple; Tsippi Kauffman, In All Your Ways Know Him; Zeev Gries, Book, Writer and Story; Rachel Elior, Harut al Haluhot; Dov Kats, The Musar Movement; Emanuel Etkes, Rabi Israel Salanter.