Benjamin Franklin's Influence on Mussar Thought and Practice: a Chronicle of Misapprehension

Benjamin Franklin's ideas and writings may be said to have had an impact on Jewish thought and practice. This influence occurred posthumously, primarily through his Autobiography and by way of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lefin's Sefer Cheshbon ha-Nefesh (Book of Spiritual Accounting, 1808), whic...

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Main Author: Afsai, Shai (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 228-276
Further subjects:B Cheshbon ha-Nefesh
B Mussar
B Mendel Lefin
B Orthodox Judaism
B Art of Virtue
B Benjamin Franklin
B Haskalah
B Menachem Mendel Levin
B Deism
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