Pirkei Avos 1:12-14 The Abarbanel Revolutionizes Hillel's Dictum "U'keshe'ani L'atzmi Mah Ani"

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

when I learn it I uh, my soul is stirred. Um, to the extent I feel uh, very big hissarus reading his perushim and that is the commentary of the Abravanel. The Abravanel uh, writes that he considers himself a which he was a choy demigod you shy he was a shoot from the stump of David Alamelech and we've many many times over the years and we've many many times over the years learned from the teachings of the Abravanel how the leaders of cloud Israel throughout the ages have descended from David Alamelech and he learns of Shimon Yehuda is uh, not only Malchus based of it but in terms of God only Israel who come from David Alamelech that Torah leadership uh, comes from David Alamelech and uh, I will say today is the last sort of the last day of Shiva of my grandfather. Um, my grandfather had a tradition about Um, my grandfather had a tradition about himself that he was from Shimon Yehuda and from David Alamelech and certainly uh, I saw a Ruach Elohim in my Zeda and and a feeling of that he had of leadership and dedication to cloud Israel which um, I must admit I am very stirred by by reading the words of the Abravanel. Uh, and this perhaps we'll see in his

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