Joshua Boettiger

Joshua Boettiger is Jewish chaplain and visiting assistant professor of humanities at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. He is the current rosh yeshiva for the Center for Contemporary Mussar and for the last decade directed the Mussar program at Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland, Ore. Joshua also teaches Jewish meditation and co-leads silent retreats. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Pacific University, and his poetry has appeared in the Missouri Review, the Southern Review, B O D Y and elsewhere.

Essays

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A Certain Kind of Devotion: Thinking About the Relationship Between Mussar and Poetry

August 5, 2024

What if all these rules about how to read Torah are skills that also apply to the person sitting across from us?

Joshua Boettiger

Essays

A Certain Kind of Devotion: Thinking About the Relationship Between Mussar and Poetry

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