What Path shall I choose? Ethics of Our Fathers (Chap.2:1) פּרקי אבות

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

[Music] In chapter two of ethics of our fathers, it states in the very first Mishna Rebi says, "What is the proper path that man should choose for himself. So the Rebi goes on to say what does Rebi say? Whatever is a credit to himself or is beautiful to himself and is beautiful and earns him the esteem of his fellow man. That is the path that one shall choose. So there are numerous questions here in the Mishna. Number one is Rebi the Mishna. Number one is Rebi was the redactor of the Mishna. He was the one in the second century of the common era put together the Mishna. He was called Rabihuda Hanasi. Rabi Judah the prince. Yet in this Mishna he is simply called by the name Rebi. Why is he called by the name Rebi? Rebi means simply teacher. Number two is what kind of a question is Number two is what kind of a question is what is the proper path that a man should choose? One should choose the path of God. We know that in the book of Hosa in chapter 14 verse number one it says there which means that the ways of God are straight and furthermore it says the laws of God are straight and therefore that is the straight path the therefore that is the straight path the man should choose for himself which is the path of God the path path of Torah and mitzvah and for Noah the seven laws of Noah based on the commentaries there are actually 31 laws for Noahites and for a Israelite the tarag 613 mitzvah of the Torah that is the straight path or the proper path that one should choose for himself so why is this such a question that Ebie is

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