Five Things Hillel the Sage Taught Us (Avos 2:4,5) פרקי 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.

we are starting today chapter two of prikhiyavi's ethics of our fathers and uh thank you all for joining preaky obvious ethics of our fathers chapter two mishna number four in some editions like the tehillis hashem and in other editions it is mishna number five do not separate yourself from the congregation what does this mean it has many levels of interpretation first and foremost the importance of davening with a minion with its sibor with a congregation sibor actually is a acronym or mnemonic for sadiq benini russia a tsarik a righteous person a mediocre person and a wicked person this makes up a cyborg and especially now at a time of a pandemic when people are in quarantine and god willing hopefully we are returning to shul this is encouragement hillel the sage is encouraging us to dive in with a cyborg to dive in with a minion because when you're diving alone you're not always answered but when you're diving with a cyborg when you're diving with a congregation then you are always answered god does not turn away the prayers of it's ibur the same is true with the study of torah when it comes to the study of torah many synagogues have a study session between minh maidev and there are those who say look i have my own study session i learn every day at daf in the gomura i learn the chapter of the rambam i learn every day now i will go and study myself if you're

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