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Everyday Holiness

The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar

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Everyday Holiness

By: Alan Morinis
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
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Mussar is an illuminating, approachable, and highly practical set of teachings for cultivating personal growth and spiritual realization in the midst of day-to-day life. Here is an accessible and inspiring introduction to this Jewish spiritual path, which until lately has been best known in the world of Orthodox Judaism. The core teaching of Mussar is that our deepest essence is inherently pure and holy, but this inner radiance is obscured by extremes of emotion, desire, and bad habits. Our work in life is to uncover the brilliant light of the soul. The Mussar masters developed transformative teachings and practices - some of which are contemplative, some of which focus on how we relate to others in daily life - to help us to heal and refine ourselves.

©2007 Alan Morinis (P)2014 Audible Inc. Judaism Middle East
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Every now and again Audible really comes up with the gold! It keeps us subscribed! I'm a practicing Catholic and yet I found this work on Mussar: the hebrew for instruction (see Proverbs 4, 13) to be utterly edifying and absolutely relevant to my own walk towards righteousness in the Lord and character development.
It was eminently practical and not full of excessive waffle. Neither was it filled with pie in the sky space-out mysticism (even though I do like a bit of abstract Theology). Mussar is brass tacks: examine yourself and go to work methodically, calmly, honestly. As a Christian I will be incorporating elements of this into my own faith walk. Many elements of this mussar can be found in Ignatian spiritual exercises and the saints but it's just nice to here this wisdom from the Jewish tradition emanating from Torah and the Tenakh. Mussar is a biblical practice and concept as I've shown above.
The first part introduces Mussar and then goes over many spiritual and moral traits: one per chapter. Awesome! The second part then goes into how to work on your own character in self examination and working on overcoming the sins/flaws and strengthening concrete virtues as their antithesis. The narrator does a fine job.

What an incredible audible production. Pure gold!

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