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else because life is a journey of growing','
Morinis says."The starting point is rec-
ognition of what's going on in a person's
own life in practical and real terms:'
The Mussar goal is for an individual
to master any trait found challenging.
An example offered by Morinis is the
trait of patience and the possibilities of
growth in achieving patience.
"Impatient people who take no
responsibility can go around saying
everybody in the world is too slow," he
explains. "Everything is torturing them
because they don't realize they can
develop patience. I don't have a choice
about waiting; I have a choice about
waiting patiently or impatiently'
Morinis says that the depth of Mussar
practice is not dependent on the depth
of Jewish belief and observance.
"Either we get smart and realize that
we can make something of life if we
learn from the experience of bygone
generations or we're going to get
whacked around by life,' he says. "We

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can act with conscious intention and
take on spiritual practice.
"When I began my search for guid-
ance, I had an intuition that I was look-
ing for something that would be very
nourishing to my own inner life. I felt it
should be something Jewish because I'm
a Jew.
"There are so many spiritual tradi-
tions and secular traditions of self-help
and self-development; but deeply within
myself, there was a recognition that
I stand in a tradition and a chain of
people." E

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Joshua Bennett through Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield, (248)
661-5700; for information about
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down kids trying to smuggle a few car-
rots into the ghetto; hand-drawn carts
piled high with naked skeletons on their
way to a makeshift cemetery.
For Hersonski, 34, this was the most
difficult part of the project.
"After each session, I found myself
physically numb and mentally knocked
out:' she said. "I couldn't even begin to
imagine what the survivors themselves
must have felt."
However agonizing the experience, it
may have been the most enlightening,
for it showed kernels of truth and reality
amid the staged ghetto scenes.
For instance, pedestrians in a number
of scenes seemed to walk indifferently
past dead children lying unattended on
the street. The outtakes showed some of
the same pedestrians repeatedly walking
past the same point, obviously ordered
to do so by the Germans.
One survivor commented that such
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and poor, a few dozen ghetto inhabitants
had managed to hold on to their money
and temporarily were able to enjoy some
privileges.
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the same fate as their poorer brethren.
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completed?
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subtler after the failure of The Eternal
Jew, which depicted Jews as hordes of
voracious rats emerging from a sewer.
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