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Pirkei Avos: Chapter 5 Mishna 1

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Rabbi Hillel Shaps

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Okay, continuing Pierce AOS and we are starting a new chapter today. We are starting chapter five parakeet and parakeet of pureos actually is quite different from the previous chapters because it involves many lists of different things as we'll as we're about to see as opposed to up till now it's been the sayings and the teachings of different different sages. Um, perk hey chapter 5 different sages. Um, perk hey chapter 5 is mostly made up of different lists of things or actually as we'll see some doesn't even list everything but it tells you there are this number of things. So that's actually the first Mishna which is the one that we're going to focus on today. The first Mishna teaches us mamaros the world was created with 10 mamaro statements. So if you look in the book statements. So if you look in the book of braces, chapter one of the book of braces where we have the creation story, we have Hashem creating the world and you'll see almost 10 times that it says elohim and hashem said so you know the first the first one that it says it for is let there be light and there was light and then for each we have 10 almost 10 I say because there's actually nine nine uh statements that And the Gar actually asks what is the

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  1. 0:03Okay, continuing Pierce AOS and we are starting a new chapter today. We are starting chapter
  2. 4:08then when the when the wicked destroy the world, well, they're only destroying a world that
  3. 8:4810 really that I should say that's the second state that's the second question um of
  4. 13:28and and loyal to serve Hashem properly. So then that just increases our our reward. So
  5. 18:13to between Adam and Noah before they had been pogame. They had damaged and dented every
  6. 22:54will hopefully cause them to repent, to change their ways. And uh because they don't have
  7. 27:04the same. So So what's the difference? You know, one statement, 10 statements, it's the same
  8. 31:48will and we're to to live with that responsibility. That's a warning. That's that's what that's
  9. 36:22fulfilling our mission, so then we are in essence destroying the world because we're not allowing
  10. 41:00goes against the concept of of Hashem being a loving God and and God of kindness.

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