The modern world is too modern. You can not imagine Eisenhower going into a church and asking to get whipped by the monks for the deaths of D-day as repentance. But you can understand Henry II doing that for the death of his vassal who was rebelling.
Why ? Because we have lost the idea of repentance.
So what Allan Bloom saw as a crisis of the enlightenment as opposed to the anti enlightenment as reaching a kind of peak of the wave in American universities--I see something else. The crisis of Western Civilization losing our foundations.
So you can see something important about the whole idea of Israel Salanter in the idea of the Musar movement. That was not just about any old Musar. The major idea was the Musar of the Rishonim.
Why ? Because we have lost the idea of repentance.
So what Allan Bloom saw as a crisis of the enlightenment as opposed to the anti enlightenment as reaching a kind of peak of the wave in American universities--I see something else. The crisis of Western Civilization losing our foundations.
So you can see something important about the whole idea of Israel Salanter in the idea of the Musar movement. That was not just about any old Musar. The major idea was the Musar of the Rishonim.
