Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ch. 3 Mishna 19 (Part 2)

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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.

all right so we're picking up in the middle of what we're calling mishna 20 and uh although many have it as a separate mishna and the M on the handout it's on the handout that I sent out yes but it says 19 oh it says 19 sorry yeah thank you for the correction actually it's mission 19 welcome to those joining us I'm sorry my original email that I sent earlier this morning never went out so it uh was a late late email sent so uh we're gonna work on what I call mishna 19 here the second half and it begins H om he used to say he referring to and he used to say as follows maruba anyone whose wisdom is greater than his deeds what is such a person compared to he's like a tree who has a lot of branches and very few roots and the wind comes and uproots it as you can imagine a tree that has a lot of branches and not a lot of roots can be uprooted easily a tree will come and uproot it but not not only that it's gonna flip it over on its head as the verse says inah he'll be like a bush in the desert which does not see he won't see that good is coming it dwells amongst like burnt places are scorched places they say here in the wilderness Bel a land that's salty and uh uninhabited that's a PK Yia a vers Yia and that's what it's telling us um it's

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1. 0:03all right so we're picking up in the middle of what we're calling mishna 20 and…
2. 3:17Before He'll be like a tree planted by Waters and on the stream it will send…
3. 7:06248 pos positive Commandments 365 negative Commandments those correspond to the parts of the body that…
4. 10:21misappropriating this PK for his own uh his own teaching when it really seems to have…
5. 14:05person who uh person who has who has many uh that that the wisdom is the…
6. 17:30is the wisdom that I attain in order to get there okay so but what is…
7. 21:18tree it just talks about a tree that doesn't really have access to water it's in…
8. 24:33says there's a difference between sh and here it says he's like an an a tree…
9. 28:22uprooted um so so that person it's not going to last whatever they they've settled on…
10. 31:34something that that can last on the other hand a person who person who whose Deeds…

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