Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ep. 3

What’s said in this shiur

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

welcome back and thank you for being here virtually tonight um tonight we hope to learn from the first chapter of pirkei avos the 7th 8th 9th and 10th mishnahs and we'll see we'll see how that goes if we can get through all of that um so we'll jump right into it so we're starting with mishnah zion mishnah number seven mishnah zion mishnah number seven and there it says from our bell says you know if we backtrack to the previous mishnah so the previous one vav number six had said that yahushua yoshua prathya and nitai from our bell were the recipients the next recipients of the tradition in the previous mission i had the teaching of yahushua and now this mishna has the teaching of and now this mishna has the teaching of nitaihar bailey so what did nitayar bailey have to say what was his go-to teaching so three things number one distance yourself from an evil neighbor a chaffein is a neighbor or means bad or evil distance yourself from a bad neighbor the altis russia and don't join join actually somebody said the word before and in hebrew is a friend so this grave is the is the uh the verb to befriend and to attach really means attached so um don't attach yourself to a wicked person and literally do not give up on or abandon give up on or abandon retribution the faith and retribution the belief in retribution what that means is very unclear and uh here in this translation they put the word divine in brackets there meaning divine retribution but what does that even mean dong abandoning faith and divine retribution pretty enigmatic statement but those are the three go-to lines of nitaire bailey number one distance yourself from a bad neighbor

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1. 0:03welcome back and thank you for being here virtually tonight um tonight we hope to learn…
2. 5:41we don't need to be told to to distance ourselves from them the a person who…
3. 11:52and uh and don't just assume okay i don't have to worry i'll be i'll be…
4. 18:01the rambam he writes that it's a person's nature to be influenced by the society around…
5. 24:12that so that would cause destruction in our society everybody would befriend the worst villains and…
6. 30:22and in this approach i think we flip from what we said originally this is quoted…
7. 35:58join with the immoral and that he warns don't do that and don't give up just…
8. 42:09you know with certain rabbi for the rabbinical court the other one can choose a second…
9. 48:18because how could that person be lying how could you know i know this person he's…
10. 54:26or playing lawyer with god and saying you know asking these questions of god and uh…

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