The Adult Education Committee is pleased to present

a series of Mussar classes.

The Zoom link will be available on this page before the first class.

Mussar is the Hebrew word for ethics.  The discussion of Jewish ethics dates back to the Talmudic period, but the formal study of Mussar is only traced back to the yeshivot in Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century.

The basic idea of Mussar is that we are all born with hundreds of character traits (middot — the Hebrew word for measure), but each of us possesses them in different quantities.  The study of Mussar involves looking at these traits from a Jewish lens.  The goal of Mussar is to make the heart feel what the mind already knows, thereby allowing each of us to become the best version of ourselves that we can possibly achieve.

The first two classes are scheduled for Tuesday, December 3rd and 17th at 7:00pm, and (excluding New Year's Eve) will continue every other week through at least the end of January. The classes will be offered over Zoom and will be instructed by TBJ member Debbie Harris.