Shaarei Teshuva
The Basic Books of Mussar

Rabbeinu Yonah wrote this seminal 900-year-old sefer after witnessing the burning of the Talmud in France, an event he felt indirectly responsible for because he had directed the burning of the Rambam’s seforim years before. Addressing such themes as zealotry and fanaticism, the power of shame, and the dangers of lashon hara, Rabbi Wein draws a timeline through Jewish history, applying lessons from the medieval era to our modern media age.

• the history of the mussar movement
• the Rambam, his detractors and his supporters
• moving messages for Elul, the High Holy Days, and all year round