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- ↑ Stern, Marissa (2018-01-24). "Center for Contemporary Mussar Offers Space for Study and Self-Introspection". Jewish Exponent. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ↑ Stone, Ira; Trey, Beulah (2019-03-06). In Search of the Holy Life: Rediscovering the Kabbalistic Roots of Mussar. iUniverse. ISBN 9781532069819.
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- ↑ Geoffrey Claussen, "The American Jewish Revival of Musar", Hedgehog Review 12, no. 2 (2010): 63-72
- ↑ "Center for Contemporary Mussar".
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