Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ep. 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.

okay welcome back so this is uh week number two of pirkei avos i wish i could translate that we went through uh last week a number of different explanations for what that means we'll call it chapters of the fathers um and uh last week we studied the first three paragraphs the first three mishnayos and today i'm hoping that we'll do the next three just to recap because we're going to tie it in so it in so last week in the second mishna we learned the teaching of shimon hatsadik shim on the righteous and he taught that the world stands on three things on torah on a voda service of god and on game acts of kindness and we explained by again there's many different ways to understand each of these teachings but the way that we understood it was that the way that we understood it was that the world stands on three things meaning the world was really created so that man kind can engage in these three things that would bring about the purpose of creation which is for the creations us to develop a relationship with god a closeness with god which is achieved through making ourselves similar to god and doing acts that bring us close so torah's doggy gives us the the mindset the perspective of god we become similar to god in that

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1. 0:02okay welcome back so this is uh week number two of pirkei avos i wish i…
2. 6:09how one is to serve god don't serve god with the intent of receiving reward but…
3. 11:48and uh certainly this happens sometimes unfortunately to yeshiva students who just push themselves too hard…
4. 17:25mishna five so here this is a little bit uh of a more difficult mishna to…
5. 23:05in a kind manner when somebody does come to us then they'll come to us again…
6. 28:43certain uh contexts maybe a unique exception to that but uh that's its own discussion but…
7. 34:19just to to be and whether it's because someone's poor whether they're in need for other…
8. 39:53have people come to their house because he doesn't want the guests to be talking to…
9. 45:32off with some instructive uh instructive um recommendations for engaging in an act of kindness um…
10. 51:09teacher is usually ready to teach right it's a one-way it's it's a one-way relationship in…

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