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- ↑ "JUF News : 'Feeding the soul' through the Mussar practice". JUF News. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- ↑ Ellenson, Ruth Andrew (23 March 2002). "An Assimilated Jew's Connection With an Old Tradition". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- 1 2 Geoffrey Claussen, "The American Jewish Revival of Musar Archived 2011-02-03 at the Wayback Machine ," The Hedgehog Review. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
- ↑ Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, "Living Spiritual Teachers Project: Alan Morinis". Retrieved 10 January 2011.
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