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Rabbi Yisroel Salanter רבי ישראל סלאנטער זצ"ל
Father of the Mussar movement, who taught that working on yourself is as serious as a hard Gemara
Edit / add infoRabbi Yisroel Lipkin, known as Rabbi Yisroel Salanter (1810–1883), founded the Mussar movement in Lithuania. He taught that a Jew must learn mussar daily and work on his character, and his students brought mussar into every Lithuanian yeshiva.
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From Zhagory to Salant
Rabbi Yisroel Lipkin was born in 1810 in Zhagory, Lithuania. He was called "Salanter" because he learned in Salant under Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, who showed him how seriously one must take working on oneself [1].
Mussar for every Jew
In Vilna and later Kovno, Rabbi Yisroel launched his movement: learn mussar books daily, with a tune and feeling, so the words reach the heart [1]. He set up mussar study houses for ordinary working men, not only scholars.
A famous story: during a severe cholera epidemic in Vilna in 1848, he instructed people to eat on Yom Kippur to protect their health, and ate on the bimah himself so no one would be embarrassed [1].
His students
His students, such as the Alter of Kelm, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, and Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer, carried the mussar path onward [1]. He passed away in 1883 in Königsberg. Nearly every Lithuanian yeshiva today has a mussar seder and a shmuess, his direct legacy.
Sources
- 1WikipediaIsrael Salanteraccessed 20 octobre 2026
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