No Pain, No Gain! | Rabbi Eytan Feiner

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The moral and ethical compass of every honest Jew's life is, of course, Pirkei Avos, the Ethics of our Fathers. Pirkei Avos, so fundamental, so יסודי to everybody's life. We have six Prakim, but Perek number 6, also branded the appellation, פרק קניין תורה, was a subsequent compilation of various different Braisas, but the original Pirkei Avos consisted of five Prakim, of five chapters. Now the Gemara tells us in Brachos 12a, Everything comes down to the חתימה. We know אחרון אחרון חביב, if you look at the end, there's something big about the end. So if you were writing, you’re אנשי כנסת הגדולה, and you're all the subsequent generations of our illustrious תנאים, and you're penning the analogies, the credos by which an honest, ehrlich, beautiful Jew should live his or her life, then we know we're going to look at Pirkei Avos. And when we turn in Pirkei Avos, we know we got to fast-forward, we got to go to the final departing message of those original five Prakim of Pirkei Avos. And what's the final message? The last line, the departing phrase of the five original Prakim of Pirkei Avos,

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1. 0:05The moral and ethical compass of every honest Jew's life is, of course, Pirkei Avos, the…
2. 0:35Everything comes down to the חתימה. We know אחרון אחרון חביב, if you look at the…
3. 1:09is none other than that statement from Ben Hei Hei. Keeping in mind he's a גר,…
4. 1:39that's the אגרא, that's going to be the שכר. Explains the מדרש שמואל, and I got…
5. 2:09You have to leave that comfort zone. So a person's walking down the street and you…
6. 2:41But you know what? In רוחניות, you can all become equally as great, in the sense…

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