ISBN: 9798191845852 - the jewish stoic: how ancient jewish wisdom answers the modern search for self-mastery (older than the trend series) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Jewish Stoic takes the modern hunger for self-mastery, the cold plunges and the alarms set for five and the streaks guarded like treasure, and grounds it in a system far older and still running. A blessing before food creates a pause. Guarded speech gives the tongue a boundary. Shabbat teaches a person to stop while the work remains unfinished. Teshuvah teaches that failure can be named, repaired, and followed by a real beginning. The Greek schools that gave the modern discipline movement its name went quiet seventeen centuries ago. The Jewish system of discipline was tried by every empire that wanted it gone, and it is still running tonight, in a million homes, on the same schedule.…