Torah Learning Will Not Be Remembered & Won't Protect From Sin Without Yiras Shamayim - Pirkei Avos

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

Okay, friends. Welcome. We're continuing Perek Avos Perek Gimmel. We're up to Mishna uh Mishna Tes. Rebbi Chanina ben Dosa omer, Rebbi Chanina ben Dosa says, Kol she yiras chet'o kodemes l'chochmoso, chochmoso miskayemes. Anyone who has fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom will stand. V'chol she chochmoso kodemes l'yiras chet'o, Anyone whose wisdom precedes his fear of sin, ein chochmoso miskayemes, his wisdom will not stand. Simply this means as follows. There two dimensions of our relationship with Hashem. One is the reverence and the awe we have for him, and the other is, so to speak, bein adam l'atzmo, our personal quest for wisdom and understanding. Whether it's knowledge of the principles of Torah, the Talmudic principles, the Halachic principles. And there are different kinds of people. You have some people who are God-fearing, but not as knowledgeable. Some people are very knowledgeable, but not as God-fearing. So, so to speak, what takes priority? What is What should be the introduction? So, presumably, simply what the Mishna is saying is that if your fear of God comes first, then what you learn will be me- much more meaningful to you on a deeper level, you won't forget it. However, if first comes your intellectual curiosity and your desire for knowledge, and your fear of God is lacking in that area, then what you know will only be purely intellectual, and it will be somewhat elusive to you because it comes and it goes. It won't stay in one's

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1. 0:00Okay, friends. Welcome. We're continuing Perek Avos Perek Gimmel. We're up to Mishna uh Mishna Tes.…
2. 1:02Whether it's knowledge of the principles of Torah, the Talmudic principles, the Halachic principles. And there…
3. 2:33miskayemes. L'inyan hahishtadlus nemar hadavar zeh. This is referring to efforts, the efforts we make. Ki…
4. 3:33sin. Then you will if you understand it, you will remember it. Because at all times…
5. 5:07wisdom, nimtza k'shehu lamed, it comes out when you're learning, masirasai, it warns you, u'ma'ashertai, and…
6. 6:42and an insurance and a safety net to keep you in your chosen path, continuing in…
7. 7:42keep you in that path, and not only and preserve you in the right path, and…
8. 9:14l'mutav, the light of the Torah will bring you to the right path." No, it doesn't…
9. 10:17keep you away from the sins that you've been accustomed to. The sof al levavah. You're…
10. 11:47undermining the value of Torah." I would think that based on this comment of Rebbeinu Yonah,…

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