Rav Yisroel Salanter - כה שבט

Yahrtzeit Yomi #938!! כה שבט Rav Yisroel Salanter הרב ישראל ב״ר זאב וואלף ליפקין (1809 - 1883) ------------------------------ Today’s edition of Yahrtzeit Yomi featuring HaRav Yisroel Salanter ZTL has been anonymously dedicated in honor of Rabbi Wartelsky Shlita and his daily Yahrtzeit Yomi broadcast, for inspiring me and the lives of so many in Klal Yisroel!! (Thank you so very much, you-know-who!!) ---------------------------------------------------------- Today (Sunday, 25 Shvat) marks the 141st Yahrtzeit of Rav Yisroel Salanter ZTL (Rav Yisroel Lipkin), founder and leader of the Mussar renaissance. Rav Yisroel would champion and promulgate the principle that the inter-personal laws of the Torah (בין אדם לחבירו) bear as much weight as those obligations which are strictly Divine (בין אדם למקום). Rav Yisroel would teach that adhering to the ritual aspects of Judaism without developing one's relationships with others and with oneself, is an error of extreme magnitude. Additionally, the innovative concept of “subconscious motivation” appears in Rav Yisroel’s writings, already in the mid-1800s (well before a toddler named Sigmund Freud from Austria imagined that his baby bottle was nothing other than a living deputy for his mother, and his toy rattle an anthropomorphic embodiment of his noisy older sister). Rav Yisroel wrote that it is critical for a person to identify what his subconscious motivations (known as “negios”) are, and to work on understanding their roots. Our Rebbi