Iran Plans to Bring the Hizballah Model to Syria and Iraq
A threat to the U.S. and to Israel.
February 5, 2018
Did an East European Rabbi Resolve One of Moral Philosophy’s Oldest Problems?
Eliyahu Dessler, mussar, Aristotle, and the death of virtue.
In a recent essay, Abraham Socher explored how Moses Maimonides dealt with some of the thorniest questions of modern ethical thought: how to square the fact that people want to do good with their inability to do so, and, if being a good person means not just following rules but possessing inner virtues, how is the movement from non-virtue to virtue—that is, repentance—ever possible? While Socher concludes that such paradoxes may be ultimately unsolvable, Andrew Koss sees a possible answer in the work of the Russian-born rabbi Eliyahu Dessler (1892-1953):
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In Responding to the New Anti-Semitism, Jews Must Refuse to Apologize for Themselves
Holocaust Remembrance Day reflections from Howard Jacobson.
Nationalism, Zionism, and the Jews
What Ernest Renan and Theodor Herzl held in common.
The Latest Palestinian Incitement against the U.S.
Burning Donald Trump and Mike Pence in effigy.
Did an East European Rabbi Resolve One of Moral Philosophy’s Oldest Problems?
Eliyahu Dessler, mussar, Aristotle, and the death of virtue.