Rabbi Ricky CohenPirkei Avot: Chapter 2, MIshna 1: The Value of a Misva Monday 11.28.22

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Ricky Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I'm thinking oh God thank you thank you oh I appreciate it thank you [Music] okay all righty so um we're we're uh we're gonna we're gonna touch on something that's uh a little bit more challenging uh so I appreciate any push back any struggle it's all great let's let's figure it out together but in order to do it we're going to touch in order to do it we're going to touch on a couple of the things we've done so far and here what one of the things that's been great so far for everybody who's on Zoom is the zoom the zoom uh people have been asking and interacting as well so please do that all right uh the people in person it's easy but for the zoom people please ask questions and stop and so on okay so we're gonna go back to one of the things we uh one of the things we started with in order to build this so we started with a question build this so we started with a question in the first mishnah the question is what's more important learning Torah or doing mitzvot right learning or doing so the rabbi struggle with this question and comes in an age-old question and in a classic Jewish style we say that they're both the most important right learning Torah and doing the Mitzvah they're both the most I mean it Mitzvah they're both the most I mean it means as follows we say that we we assess first do the uh we Act we ACT first and then we understand which means right we do the Mitzvah let's say it's something on Shabbat that we'd like to do that we're aware of and so on with we do it to the best of our ability we learn more about it the learning

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1. 0:00I'm thinking oh God thank you thank you oh I appreciate it thank you [Music] okay…
2. 6:13little bit higher by doing a little bit higher then I learn more but like this…
3. 12:26do it mindfully better the more we could do it mindfully and less automatically is actually…
4. 18:41think about the person you'd like to be in the future okay I punched Shimon in…
5. 24:52gonna go I understand why I stumbled and I'm moving to be better I'm moving to…
6. 31:06100 years or whatever it was like I'm singing Grandpa it's just a good old guy…
7. 37:15the person goes through the process intellectually not emotionally intellectually of figuring out why he or…
8. 43:31to work hard to get back there right I want to work on my tree law…
9. 49:36there are certain children at certain times where parents should share their struggling should because I…
10. 55:47that's much harder for us will yield us a greater one million percent so don't be…

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