Pirkei Avos: Ethics for Everyday Living Ep. 8

What’s said in this shiur

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 so we're picking up in the second chapter of pierce um the second mishna mishna mishna base so the mishnah says as follows says just mute everyone but feel free to unmute for comments or questions taurus doggy is ya fez excellent to be translated here is great with derek now derek irets literally means the way of the land so and so that really is kind of open to interpretation we use it often in uh in conversation sort of to mean like respect or proper behavior you know to treat people with directs to treat people with with directs to treat people with respect so we'll we'll see that that's one of the understandings that we'll take but they're kind of because it's a vague term it leaves it open to to more interpretation so for now we'll leave it untranslated that talmud with derek is great is excellent because if one toils in both both torus doggy and um wherever this dereference is so that um wherever this dereference is so that will help one avoid sin um from the root like sin will be forgotten or um so here we translate yes keep sin out of one's mind and any torah that doesn't have work along with it action sofa betela in the end it will become nullified vigorous lead to sin so if the work doesn't have sorry if the torah doesn't have work along with it so it will end up being botel nullified and it will lead to sin the koha melem and all those who toil with the public with the community they should do it for the sake of heaven messiah because the merit of their

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2. 5:45the temple really destroyed why were we exiled from israel because we abandoned the torah it…
3. 11:56is just wonderful and clearly the the fact that they study torah is having a positive…
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5. 23:47to find something to eat you're going to try to find a way to make money…
6. 29:20that those who toil with the all those who toil with the community so they should…
7. 35:25actually we the the mishnah that we just learned previously mishnah two mishna bays of this…
8. 41:02my sandwich doesn't need me right but the idea is that uh that the only need…
9. 47:06manifestation of god's will that's the most simple um understanding of this instruction and then it…
10. 52:44but what our will ultimately is is to be able to fulfill god's will there's actually…

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