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<span>Posted:</span> 08 May 2007 05:44 AM CDT</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><p>I recently had the honor of translating the introduction to <a title="Wikipedia: Shimon Shkop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Shkop">Rav Shimon Shkop</a>’s <a title="Introduction to Shaarei Yosher" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/ShaareiYosher.pdf">Shaarei Yosher</a>. My love of <a title="Introduction to Shaarei Yosher" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/ShaareiYosher.pdf">this piece</a> is only partly because Rav Shimon was the rebbe of my rebbe, Rav Dovid Lifshitz.</p>
<p>In a few short pages, Rav Shimon defines holiness, gives the key to happiness and contentment, explains the path to <em>chessed </em>(lovingkindness), and the relationship between <em>mussar </em>and the rest of Torah. His answers to these questions are based on ideas we as products of today’s culture, can very well relate to; for example, <em>chessed</em> is defined in terms of a healthy notion of one’s own value, not an abnegation of self.</p>
<p>In case you missed the earlier links, the document is <a title="Introduction to Shaarei Yosher" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/ShaareiYosher.pdf">here</a> (starting in English at one end, and a scan of the Hebrew starting from the other), and the Wikipedia page on Rav Shimon, <a title="Wikipedia: Shimon Shkop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Shkop">here</a>.
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