Comments on: What is Mussar? http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml Keeping values and meaning in focus. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: micha http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml/comment-page-1#comment-55007 micha Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml#comment-55007 You're shifting your claim. You made a statement that the rabbinate is no good, and are now noting that there are some rabbis who are no good. Of course there are -- you can never have a group of that many people without having some really rotten apples. I don't know what problem you have with either of the two rabbis I mentioned, but R' Yaakov Hillel shares your need to warn people against faux mequbalim. None of the people named even try to sell berakhos, or expect students to kiss their hand, so I think you're just leveraging an unrelated post to just launch your own campaign. -micha You’re shifting your claim. You made a statement that the rabbinate is no good, and are now noting that there are some rabbis who are no good. Of course there are — you can never have a group of that many people without having some really rotten apples.

I don’t know what problem you have with either of the two rabbis I mentioned, but R’ Yaakov Hillel shares your need to warn people against faux mequbalim.

None of the people named even try to sell berakhos, or expect students to kiss their hand, so I think you’re just leveraging an unrelated post to just launch your own campaign.

-micha

]]> By: micha http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml/comment-page-1#comment-55003 micha Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml#comment-55003 I don't think your second paragraph is true. If anything, many contemporary rabbis have often shown a tendency to fight vehemently against actions that are only desecrations of the Torah according to their own <em>derekh</em>, and not by the worldview of the one acting. Sowing division when it is hard to see how the benefit outweighs the cost. I also fail to see what this has to do with the question in the post, "What is Mussar?" -micha I don’t think your second paragraph is true. If anything, many contemporary rabbis have often shown a tendency to fight vehemently against actions that are only desecrations of the Torah according to their own derekh, and not by the worldview of the one acting. Sowing division when it is hard to see how the benefit outweighs the cost.

I also fail to see what this has to do with the question in the post, “What is Mussar?”

-micha

]]> By: Aspaqlaria » Blog Archive » 25th of Shevat http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml/comment-page-1#comment-54944 Aspaqlaria » Blog Archive » 25th of Shevat Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml#comment-54944 [...] What is Mussar? [...] [...] What is Mussar? [...]

]]> By: Stephen Baker http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml/comment-page-1#comment-23966 Stephen Baker Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml#comment-23966 This was a wonderful and thought provoking essay. This was a wonderful and thought provoking essay.

]]> By: Neil Harris http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml/comment-page-1#comment-20809 Neil Harris Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2008/01/what-is-mussar.shtml#comment-20809 Beautiful essay. Yashar Koach! Beautiful essay. Yashar Koach!

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