Rabbeinu Yona on Pirkei Avos 1:4 Make Your Home For the Sages

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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.

know is for the young Israel Kew Garden Hills primarily and we have a lot of people who are ah they they they were born before the advent of this technology, but the advantage, friends, of setting up a team page is you will very quickly you will become 20 years younger. Okay? It's like an elixir. You will go back in time. Okay. Welcome everyone. Pirkei Avot perek aleph mishnah dalet. Yosi ben Yo'ezer Ish Tzeredah v'Yosi ben Yochanan Ish Yerushalayim kiblu mehem. Yosi ben Yo'ezer, man of Tzeredah. Yosi ben Yochanan, man of Yerushalayim received from them. Yosi ben Yo'ezer Ish Tzeredah omer, Yehi veischa beis va'ad lachachamim. Your house should be a house of gathering for the sages. They have a You should wrestle. In other words, you should cling to the dust of their feet. You Your house should be a place where sages gather. You should be sitting in the dust of their feet. And you should drink with thirst their words. So, this is a a re um reality shift in terms of our perspective to tell me the Hakamim. And I remember this one time at a Shalom Zachar. And there's always a guy he would schedule coming to the Shalom Zachar before I would get there, so he would not have to hear my 5-minute Var Torah. I knew he had it like clockwork. Because Has V'Shalom to to hear Not that I'm a Hakam, but you know, uh at the end of the day someone says a Var Torah, so it's something you should thirst for. You know, the fish when the water comes down and it rains, they jump out of the water to grab the drop. Because fish understand how important

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2. 2:12should be a place where sages gather. You should be sitting in the dust of their…
3. 3:17water is and they can't live without water, so for them every additional drop is valuable.…
4. 4:52from it. So, they have to see the mizbei'ach and the shulchan. But someone on a…
5. 5:57of us the rain. You should drink with thirsty words. Says Rabbenu Yonah, Yosi ben Yo'ezer…
6. 7:37eyes to go to that house. So there's a very interesting thing. You should your house…
7. 8:38greatness in Torah, because of your middos and taivos, that the Hakhamim would want to gather…
8. 9:43while he was sitting, I served standing. This is what it means you should honor all…
9. 11:24what you're doing is you're Rabenu Yona writes in Shaarei Teshuva, when you're Ham Tyra, you're…
10. 12:25get another morsel in your mouth, it's disgusting to you. Your soul your you just one…

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