PIRKEI AVOS: Living An Exalted Life by Rabbi Dovid Horowitz

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okay good evening everyone and welcome back to another week in pirkei of ice the ethics of our fathers we were on hanukkah break we learned about hanukkah before now we're going to go back into the words of our sages and it's really fascinating because every week that we learn this together it's kind of the mishna that catches my eye that week is what we end up speaking about and as i was preparing for tonight's shir i found that this mishna which was picked quote unquote randomly picked quote unquote randomly is very much connected to the three parties this last week this week and the following week we'll see with the life of yesterday joseph our righteous forefather so i'm over here in the second chapter of pikavas and in the art scroll print it's page and it is mishna number ted zion which is 16. so in english that's 555 number 16. and the misha says number 16. and the misha says yeshua says i in her an evil eye the eight sahara and the evil inclination the sina sabrias and hatred that one has for other people might see in a lamb it will remove a person from this world and obviously the simple explanation is these things will bring about a haste in a person's will bring about a haste in a person's time in this world he'll end up leaving this world a little bit prematurely however there's also obvi the deeper understanding which is that there's an island there's a world that a person has a life that a person lives there is a reality that we exist in and it's supposed to be a reality that is filled with joy and happiness and energy and simcha and optimism and things to

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