Ricky Cohen Pirchei Avot Class #2: An Optimistic Future

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

good okay so there's a there's a very famous Mishnah when I'm sure many all of you are familiar with it's on it's in the second the first Pittock of the cowboy it's a fourteenth Mishnah and it says as follows and again I'm sure you're all familiar with it we're gonna approach it in a way that I think is is very interesting and gives a great understanding of its core points amen I need a melee if I am NOT for me who will be for me Kashani that's me money but to the extent that my focus is exclusively to me well then what do I mean and Enoch shove Emmett I and it's not now when so this vishna as I mentioned very famous very well-known it took root in cultures all over the world if not now when if I'm not for me who will be for me but when Italian penned it he went after Leone penned it he meant to focus on some very core and essential things in Yahoo and Judaism that we hope will become entrenched in the world around us as a way to build people and to build societies with what's going on has gone on the last couple of weeks in America with the rioting and the unfortunate things that have gone on I felt it was important to focus on this Mishnah not from the perspective of the negative but from the perspective of what the Mishnah is referencing and how those positive society building insights can be important in our lives in terms of how we deal with our

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