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===Giving musar=== "''Giving musar''" (discipline, instruction) refers to a way to use one's speech to correct, admonish, or reprove others (Leviticus 19:17), in line with a verse from Proverbs 1:8 also in the daily prayer book: "Hear, my child, the discipline (musar) of your father, and do not forsake the teachings of your mother."<ref>{{cite web|author=Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz|date=21 November 2018|title=How to Give Mussar (Mishlei 12:14 and 12:18)|url=https://www.ou.org/torah/nach/mishlei-wisdom-for-life/giving-mussar-mishlei-12-14|website=OU.org [[Orthodox Union]]}}</ref> Giving musar through speech is meant to help mold lives.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Musar-Judaism |title=Musar |website=Britannica.com |quote=toward molding the lives of ..}}</ref> [[Shimon Schwab]] taught that although "[at times] you must ''give'' musar" the command to do so (Lev. 19:17) is followed by ''love your neighbor as yourself.'' and that "if you want ..(someone).. to change, (it must be) ''done through love.''"<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Paysach Krohn|Paysach J. Krohn]]|title=The Maggid on the Podium|date=2013|isbn=978-1-4226-1453-2|pages=115β117}}</ref> Giving musar may also happen through a formal lecture known as ''a musar shmuz''<ref>{{cite web |title=Harav Yisroel Yechezkel Plutchok, Zt"l |url=https://hamodia.com/2020/03/26/harav-yisroel-yechezkel-plutchok-ztl/ |website=hamodia.com |publisher=[[Hamodia]] |access-date=5 August 2021}}</ref> or ''musar shiur,''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://matzav.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1696%25D7%2591%25D7%2590%25D7%25A8_%25D7%2594%25D7%25A4%25D7%25A8%25D7%25A9%25D7%2594_%25D7%259B%25D7%2599_%25D7%25AA%25D7%2591%25D7%2595%25D7%2590-1.pdf |quote=When Reb Avigdor Miller zt'l concluded his weekly Thursday night mussar shiur |title=Rav Avigdor Miller Thursday nights |access-date=2020-12-31 |archive-date=2022-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217142918/https://matzav.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1696%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%94_%D7%9B%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%95%D7%90-1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> which are often part of a [[yeshiva]] curriculum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol13/v13n011.shtml|title=Avodah V13 #11|website=www.aishdas.org}}</ref> [[Elya Lopian]] taught the practice as "teaching the heart what the mind already understands."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-musar-movement/|title=What Is Mussar?}}</ref>
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