Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ch. 4 Mishna 2-3

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

all right so we are starting from peric chapter 4 the second mishna Mish B of P the Mish says one should run for a Mitzvah a light Mitzvah just like a more stringent or heavier Mitzvah uh how we Define what's light and what's stringent it's its own question we're stringent it's its own question we're not really going to address that but uh it could be just in a person's eyes what's lighter and what's heavier or could be based on sometimes the Torah does tell us what the punishment for doing or not doing something um is so that also could could impact um how we compare mitsos but it says that when it comes to running to do one you should run equally run to do a light mitzah just like a more heavy Mitzvah and one should flee from an A Mitzvah and one should flee from an A from a transgression and it says the reason is because one Mitzvah leads to another MIT one sin one a leads to another one and then it continues and it says because the award the reward for a Mitzvah is is a mitvah and the reward or the uh the mitvah and the reward or the uh the consequence is a a okay so let's try to understand what Ben is teaching us here so the first thing is is this connect I I just want to say this is one of my two favorite lines from per okay great which one the whole thing or the the whole thing okay excellent these are words that you live by so uh I try great okay so the first question is

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1. 0:03all right so we are starting from peric chapter 4 the second mishna Mish B of…
2. 4:14careful on how we approach something how we start he says the first part that the…
3. 8:53approach a Mitzvah so then uh that will encourage us to do more mitz that's what…
4. 13:30greater uh reward or greater what you call man greater greater rest in the world to…
5. 18:12even a light Mitzvah every Mitzvah is important um so it's saying run even for what…
6. 22:45something more serious um okay and just one more shot one more different way to read…
7. 27:23discriminate against anything same type of idea again we'll see there's different ways to interpret it…
8. 32:06to run from and because W ver leads to another and uh and he says we…
9. 36:50Mitzvah that doesn't have a place and he says who knows that uh this maybe this…
10. 41:38should have um so so when it comes to things everything has its place but he's…

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