The Revolutionary Power of Accepting In Advance To Fulfill What You Will Learn - Pirkei Avos 3:9

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Okay, shalom aleichem, welcome everyone. Welcome to Pirkei Avot with the commentary of Rabbeinu Yonah. We're learning perek gimmel, mishna tes. The mishna of Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa. The first part of the mishna we saw last week. The mishna said, "One whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom will be niskayem. But if his wisdom precedes his fear of sin, his wisdom will not be miskayem." Rabbeinu Yonah offered two interpretations of that. Interpretation number one is that if one learns but without the intent to fulfill it, he won't remember his learning. The desire to fulfill what he learns will ensure that he remembers. Another p'shat is if when you start in your avodas Hashem, you are you are guided by yiras shamayim, so that will keep you on the straight and the narrow, then Torah will elevate you and catapult you to very high levels. As opposed to if you're reliant on Torah to keep you on the straight and the narrow, it's going to be too hard to observe and you're eventually going to abandon it. Now we're up to the next part of the mishna. The next part of the mishna is extremely fundamental, especially as we approach the Yom Tov of Shavuos. Hava alenu letaken. Hu haya omer. Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa would say, "Kol she'amasav merubim mechakmasav, anyone whose actions are more than their wisdom, chakmaso miskayemes, their wisdom will stand. Vechol she'chakmaso meruba mim'asav, and anyone whose wisdom is more than his actions, ein chakmaso miskayemes, his wisdom will not stand." So that means there is a concept of someone who

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1. 0:01Okay, shalom aleichem, welcome everyone. Welcome to Pirkei Avot with the commentary of Rabbeinu Yonah. We're…
2. 1:04and catapult you to very high levels. As opposed to if you're reliant on Torah to…
3. 2:36That's a good question. What does the mishna mean? Kol she'amasav merubim mechakmasav. Let's see the…
4. 3:40mechakmaso, comes out your desire for wisdom will be less than your wisdom. Ucheshein ba'avaya chishuk…
5. 5:17you don't know Torah and mitzvos, mah hama'asim sheyuchal la'asos? What possible actions could you do?…
6. 6:22Lo yasur mehem, do not depart from it yamin u'smol, not to the right, not to…
7. 7:55chazal say, "Kol she'amasav merubim mechakmasav, anyone who has more deeds than wisdom, ki'af mishe'einu yode'a,…
8. 8:56before their listening. Shehayah lahem lomar, they should have said nishma venaseh, we will listen and…
9. 10:31First you have to be messing in the mid slice and then your wisdom will be…
10. 11:53Ah. There's a different Gersha. I knew there would be a different Gersha. His Gersha Rabbi…

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