Perfection: The Torah Ideal

What's the purpose of Judaism? Is Judaism merely a set of rules or is there some grander aim behind it all? In this book, Rabbi Dov Katz, a student of the Alter of Slabodka, argues that God gave the Jews the Bible and the Oral Law for man to perfect his character. A devotee of the Mussar Movement, Rabbi Katz bemoans the "narrowing of Judaism" he sees among many circles of observant Jewish society and hails the Mussar Movement as restoring the crown of Judaism to its glory. Complete with a biography of the author by his son (Rabbi Yehoshua Katz, ashkenazic rav of Maale Adumim), this book should appeal to lovers of Torah and Mussar and anyone dissatisfied with the prevailing religious weltanschauung in much of Orthodox society. It posesses approbations by Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetsky, Hershel Schachter, and Berel Wein, as well as librarian Zalman Alpert.