The Chazon Ish was one of the greatest rabbis of the twentieth century. Among his great achievements was to influence David Ben Gurion in not abandoning Jewish tradition in the new State of Israel.

He had certain novel ideas about how an individual can work at perfecting himself. He recognized that man’s makeup was more complex than we might realize. Surprisingly, he had two major complaints about the Mussar movement, that emphasized how man needed to work at improving........

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