To fulfill Mussar’s purpose, ideas are not very effective tools. Once the path is defined, the rest of the climb happens by means of a variety of experiential practices: meditation, visualization, journaling, and chanting.
- Alan Morinis
A COURSE IN ENGLISH
Level: Advanced
Open to: All
Modality: Va'ad, Lecture
Modules: Live webinar, recorded webinar follow-up, optional chevruta study
Starts: 10/18
Registration: Open now
Tuition:
Chaverim: $118
Non-Chaverim $180
A COURSE WITH LIVE VA'ADIM
Level: Intermediate
Open to: Chaverim
Modality: Live va'ad
Modules: Live va'ad, readings and practices, chevruta study, journaling
Starts: Various dates
Registration: Now closed
Tuition:
Chaverim: $430
A COURSE FROM MICHA BERGER
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: All
Modality: Live Web Meetings
Modules: Live and recorded webinars, readings, practices, optional chevruta study
Runs: 10/18/2020 - 3/21/2021 (Live catch-up class 9/13, recordings available)
Tuition:
Chaverim: $180
Non-Chaverim: $250
A COURSE WITH SHARON SCHWARTZ
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: Chaverim
Modality: Va'ad, chevruta
Starts: When va'ad is complete
Registration: Open now
Tuition: Part I: $180 Part II: $150
Path of the Soul is a curriculum for wholeness, complete with assignments, learning, challenges, and tests. Each of us has his or her own curriculum, though not everyone is aware that his or her life-course is a curriculum, nor engages with it consciously.
This advanced program of Jewish education and practice helps you recognize your own personal curriculum and provides you with the tools needed to follow that curriculum or grow toward wholeness. Along the way, you'll uncover stages, levels, dynamics, and pitfalls on your path and use Mussar’s wisdom to guide a wise and successful traverse of this path.
A Course with Steve Chervin
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: Chaverim
Modality: Va'ad, chevruta
Starts: January, 2021
Registration: Open now
Tuition: $325
Mussar In Action supports you in answering the question: How can one sustain learning and put into practice what is learned? Rabbi Yisrael Salanter saw this challenge and spoke of it in the 19th century, as did Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in the 18th. Both goals are reached through practice.
In order to bring your Mussar practice into your world (and to firmly avoid the self-absorption that is a potential pitfall of any spiritual practice) and to strengthen the bonds of community across the distances that separate us, you will engage in a project with other people that will be, in effect, your Mussar in Action.
A Course with Helaine Sheias and Avi Fertig
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: Chaverim
Modality: Recorded Lectures, va'ad, chevruta, kaballot, online forum, 13 units over 26 weeks.
Starts: November 4, 2021
Registration: Open now
Tuition: $300
When Reb Zundel of Salant (the rebbe of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter) asked his rebbe, Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin which Mussar text to study, Reb Chaim replied, “Every Mussar text is good to learn, but Messilat Yesharim should be your guide.” In this six-month course, we will study the text line by line and in-depth from the original Hebrew and will cover the Ramchal’s introduction and first chapter of this most seminal work.
A COURSE FROM REBETTZIN SCHOONMAKER
Level: Intermediate
Open to: All
Modality: Va'ad and Recordings, Chevruta, Kaballot
Starts: November, 2020
Registration: Open soon
Tuition:
Chaverim:
Non-Chaverim:
A COURSE FROM ALAN MORINIS
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: All
Modality: Independent Study
Modules: Recorded webinars, podcasts, readings, practices, optional chevruta study
Starts: The first week of any month
Registration: Open now
Tuition:
Chaverim: $136
Non-Chaverim: $180
A COURSE FROM AVI FERTIG
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Open to: Chaverim
Modality: Lessons are emailed the first week of each month
Modules: Readings, practices, recorded chants
Starts: The first week of any month
Registration: Open now
Tuition:
Chaverim: $15 per month
A COURSE FROM ALAN MORINIS
Level: Intermediate
Open to: All
Modality: Independent study
Modules: Recorded webinars, podcasts, readings, practices, online journaling
Starts: The first week of any month
Registration: Open now
Tuition:
Chaverim: $136
Non-Chaverim: $156
INTERESTED IN BRINGING MUSSAR TO YOUR COMMUNITY? WE HAVE PROGRAMS FOR YOU TO LICENSE.
For Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, and Orthodox Congregations
TMI-Certified Facilitators also lead our programs at other Jewish organizations: Jewish Federations, JCC's and more.
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Take your group through a Mussar course based on Everyday Holiness by Alan Morinis. At the end of the program, continue with the intermediate-level program.
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