The Musar Movement in Lithuania: The 19th Century Rabinistic Bildung Project Cover Image

Musar judėjimas Lietuvoje: rabiniškasis XIX a. Bildung projektas
The Musar Movement in Lithuania: The 19th Century Rabinistic Bildung Project

Author(s): Aušra Pažėraitė
Subject(s): Education, Jewish studies, Social Philosophy, History of ideas, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, 19th Century
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Musar; education; ideal of Jewishness; ideal of humaneness; Enlightenment;

Summary/Abstract: The Musar idea of Israel Salanter is an elitist rabbinic project of education, parallel to the German Bildung or the rationalistic Enlightenment ideal of the educated person in French and Anglo-Saxon modern cultures. The very heart of musar teaching is the control over the inner deepest “roots of the heart”, especially those which normally escape from consciousness, by means of a method proposed by Salanter. In such a way, it is expected to reach an ideal of Jewishness.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 76-86
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Lithuanian