Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ch. 4 Mishna 4-5

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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.

so we are picking up P elos chapter four and uh we're starting from mishad and uh mishna four chapter 4 mishna four and actually starting with mishna five is where things start to get off because on on safaria these two are one mishna and uh in the mid they're separate into two mishas so this is where we start to to mishas so this is where we start to to get the numbers off but Mna four I think in all versions is Mna four so that least the first half okay so it says like this R RAB a name that actually I don't think I've seen anywhere else um he was from y apparently and he says a person should be very very they just translate there as humble Spirit low of spirit um and clearly it's Spirit low of spirit um and clearly it's something stressed here and why for the end of man is the worm um that's how they translate it on safaria the word tikva is usually translated as the hope you know is to is to hope for the book the song you know is the hope so uh so here they say the end um which I is probably a fair translation too but most probably a fair translation too but most commentaries understand it to mean the hope and they therefore wonder why why is that one's hope why what does it mean that the hope of a of man is is the worm the basic basic understanding of the mishna is be very humble um and a way to maybe to bring about that humil is recognizing that uh we are here just temporarily and uh we might a person might think they're so great right but just remember it's just a matter of time

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1. 0:03so we are picking up P elos chapter four and uh we're starting from mishad and…
2. 4:10really our our hope is for the next world is is is once we're in the…
3. 8:18of a of a of a person who doesn't do that is just is just Rema…
4. 12:28which is behind us the person might say you know happened in the P maybe I…
5. 17:10know hold back our from our physical desires of our honor and and and uh and…
6. 21:26words because they will end up being eaten like a like a a garment by a…
7. 25:31worried about what such a person says um and uh and he brings a proof for…
8. 30:16um another possibility that he quotes from the abarbanel is that while it's telling you that…
9. 34:24it means they're equal in that both of them are punished in public and uh and…
10. 38:30fair claim person made a mistake they didn't realize this was something wrong and uh and…

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