Pirchei Avot Class #3: Upfront and Personal. My Belated Birthday Message By Ricky Cohen

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

all set all right uh we're going to uh approach uh something today that is uh in the fifth period of pracable uh the third mishna and it's a a very very important super important mishna uh that's that's learned by many of course like the rest of prokaryote uh but my sense is that there's a lot more to take from it than than most do so i wanted to than than most do so i wanted to dig into it a little more deeply today and really just highlight the life lessons and for me personally some of these lessons resonated uh very strongly uh in the last few months particularly on my most uh recent birthday so i i thought i'd tie it all together and just share some things with you in order to um in order to understand and approach this mishnah there are four fundamentals that there are four fundamentals that it's important we own the the first one is the perspective of hashtag divine providence from the perspective of harambam so this is very very important it's a very important piece of judaism fundamental of ikar of judaism to own and to and to use as we build our lives and and harambam says as follows in the morning he says morning he says that divine providence in other words the commitment that kadosh who makes to be in everybody's life and we know that that's an overt and it's a commitment that's been reiterated by god tens and maybe hundreds of times that commitment of direct involvement in each person's

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1. 0:00all set all right uh we're going to uh approach uh something today that is uh…
2. 4:41the system is that the more a person engages life the more god engages that person…
3. 9:52ancient jewish history for our purposes today let's go with the perspective that the ten tests…
4. 14:55is this what kind of world is this how could that happen so imagine for a…
5. 20:03you herded cattle you were a shepherd you were a farmer or you were a craftsman…
6. 25:08have enough was the war between the four kings and the five kings this is particularly…
7. 29:50long detailed conversations about his responsibility to his family members to an aging parent to an…
8. 35:13serving a just god an ethical god never was it anticipated that we would go back…
9. 40:22and uh and just express it as uh as something that became more um just more…
10. 45:34presence day after day i might be crying but i'm not broken i might be frightened…

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