Judaism: spiritual exercises for perfection

From Stoic thinkers to contemporary philosophy, a short history of the pursuit of happiness around the Mediterranean.

The architecture of the Path of Straightness , the treatise on Jewish morality by Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1746), follows a lesson from Rabbi Pinhas Ben Yair, a sage who lived in Palestine at the end of the second century: “ The Torah leads to vigilance, vigilance to zeal, zeal to integrity, integrity to abstinence, abstinence to purity, purity to fervor, fervor to humility, humility to fear of sin, the fear of sin to holiness ”. From vigilance to holiness, oriented by the " destination of man ", it is a favor to go up in the footsteps of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto on his ladder of Jacob raised towards Heaven with nine degrees posed one above. others.

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Born in the Padua ghetto, gifted pupil of prestigious Kabbalists, reputed to know by heart the entirety of the Pentateuch and the Talmud from the age of 14, became a rabbi five years later, author

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