How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck) by Wex, Michael (summer reading list txt) 📕

line”: Heschel, Kotsk, p. 34.

FIVE:How to Do It Like a Mentsh

“Two neighbours came”: Joseph Jacobs, “The Fables of Aesop” retrieved online at http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/jacobs/54.htm.

There’s a story: B. Parnes (Mordkhe Mishkin), Fun der rabonisher velt, pp. 53–54.

“A poor man asked”: Louis I. Newman, The Hasidic Anthology, pp. 438–39.

“There are exceptions to rules”: Lawrence Kohlberg, Essays on Moral Development, Vol. I: The Philosophy of Moral Development, p. 39.

“He must be a complete man”: Raymond Chandler, “The Simple Art of Murder,” in The Simple Art of Murder, pp. 20–21.

“By arbitrarily relating”: Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect, p. 144.

“Mrs. Elliott told her class”: Ibid.

In an experiment to measure hypocrisy: All information on this experiment is taken from Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno, “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue,” Psychological Science 18 (2007) : 689–90.

“Participants were told”: All quotations and information on this experiment from Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno, “The Duality of Virtue: Deconstructing the Moral Hypocrite,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44(5)(2008) : 1334–38.

“The movie, as everyone knows”: Roger Ebert, Review of Groundhog Day, at http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050130/REVIEWS08/501300301/1023.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Simple Art of Murder. New York: Ballantine Books, 1980.

Ebert, Roger. Review of Groundhog Day. Rogerebert.com. December 28, 2008. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050130/REVIEWS08/501300301/1023.

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“Excerpts Paint a Sordid Picture.” Globe and Mail, December 10, 2008, A14.

Heschel, A. J. Kotsk: In Gerangl far Emesdikayt. Tel Aviv: ha-Menora, 1973.

Jacobs, Joseph. “The Fables of Aesop.” Aesopica: Aesop’s Fables in English, Latin & Greek. October 12, 2008. http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/jacobs/54.htm.

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Valdesolo, Piercarlo, and David DeSteno. “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue.” Psychological Science 18 (2007) : 689–90.

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Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect. New York: Random House, 2008.

Searchable Terms

Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.

Aaron of Karlin, 141–43

Abarbanel, Isaac, 102–3, 137

abi gezunt (“as long as you’re healthy”), 3

Abraham, 85–86

Adam and Eve, failure to accept responsibility, 65–70

adonailadoshem, 9

adultery avoiding inflicting shame and, 83–94

intent and guilt, 51–52

Aesop, on envy, 136

Agus, I. A., 42–43

Akiva, Rabbi, 141, 146

aleph, 21–22

ambition, rechanneling evil and, 116–17

amorets (ignoramus), 97–100

Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 136

anger attempts to make Hillel angry, 143–51

Bar Kamtso story and, 74–79, 93–95

usefulness of, 115–16

vengeance, grudges and, 81–82

Animal House (film), 176

animals, kindness to, 139–41

anoshim, 96–100

Apartment, The (film), 118–23

Aristotle, 134

Ashkenazic Jews, 31, 36

“as long as you’re healthy” (abi gezunt), 3

Baal Shem Tov, 116, 144–45

“Ballad of a Thin Man” (Dylan), 17

Bar Kamtso. See Kamtso and Bar Kamtso

Bar Mitzvah, 26

Bible, Old Testament

Deuteronomy, 33, 139

Ecclesiastes, 24

Exodus, 137

Genesis, 38, 66, 68, 69, 70, 84, 85

Isaiah, 168

Job, 67

Joshua, 124

I Kings, 27–28, 29

Leviticus, 27, 42–43, 67, 79, 143

Numbers 20, 33–34

Proverbs, 6, 115, 139

Psalms, 59, 90, 127, 168

Bible, New Testament

Luke, 157

Matthew, 157

Blagojevich, Rod, xx

Bontshe Shvayg (Silent Bontshe) character, 14–15

Bor, “I want” and, 97–100

bride stories requests and giver’s self-awareness, 141–43

telling truth about appearance, 91–92

Burton, Robert, 136

Cain and Abel, jealousy and, 70

Cancer Schmancer (Drescher), 4

capital punishment, 140–41

Chandler, Raymond, 161–62

Chanina, Rabbi, 131–33

Chaucer, 7

cheating not getting caught and, 129–30 in speech, 67–68

childhood growth of idea of mentsh and, 26–29

traditional Jewish view of, 24–26

Chiya bar Ashi, Rabbi, 51–52, 87

Chofets Chayim (Who Desires Life) (Kagan), 89

circumcision, importance in Jewish life, 8–9

cognitive restraint, Hillel’s maxim and, 167–71

Come Blow Your Horn (Simon), xviii

community, Judaism and, 30–35, 42–48, 90–91

Confessio Amatis (Gower), 135

consideration, learning in marriage, xviii–xix

courage

to change from schnook, 118–23

to focus outside oneself, 123–28

to resist evil, 111–14

De Niro, Robert, 17

DeSteno, David, 165–168

detective, Chandler’s description of ideal, 161–62

Di Uzida, Samuel, commentary on Ovos, 101–2, 111–13, 115–17

Drescher, Fran, 4

Dylan, Bob, 17

Ecclesiastes Rabbo, 25, 144

education, idea of mentsh rooted in, 29–30, 104–5

Eidels, Samuel (Maharsho), 73

Eikho Rabbo, 74, 82

Elazar ben Azariah, Rabbi, 34, 50, 140, 141

elohim/elokim, 9

embarrassment. See shame

enemies, treatment of, 33–35, 137–43

enoysh 27

envy, evil and, 134–37

esreg, 109–10 evil

envy and, 134–37

human nature and need for Hillel’s maxim, 129–43

subduing one’s inclination to do, 111–14

Faivel of Grojec, 116

Gates of Penance (Gerondi), 87–88

Genesis Rabbo, 50–51, 60, 68, 143

Gerondi, Jonah, 87–88

Geyver, 27

God, prohibition against saying name, 8–10

Golden Rule, Hillel’s maxim contrasted with, 151–71

golem, 59–64

“Good for the Jews,” 30–31

Gower, John, 135

Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language, The, 21–22

Groundhog Day (film), 172–77

grudges, differ from vengeance, 81–82

guests, mitzvahs and, 108–9

Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides), 87, 88

Gwenn, Edmund, 6

halacha, xv, 160

Harkavy, Alexander, 20–21

Henoch of Alexander, 15

Heschel, A. J., 115

Hillel the Elder, 96–100, 128

background of, 137, 153–54

Hillel’s maxim

contrasted to Golden Rule, 151–71

evil and humans’ need for, 129–43

Hillel’s demonstration of, 143–51

personal learning and improvement and, 171–78

History of the Yiddish Language (Weinreich), 11

hypocrisy, experiment to measure, 165–68

identification, with another, 156

improvement, learning and mentsh-hood, 171–78

ironic questions, 105–8

Isaac of Warka, 116

ish/isho

anoshim, 96–100

defined, 27–28

knowledge and, 96, 100, 103

Isserles, Moses, 36

Jacob, Joseph, 136 jealousy

Adam and