Pirkei Avot Class #7. Dignity and Presence. The Making of Distinction By Ricky Cohen

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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.

okay okay all right great so we'll uh we'll get started so we're going to um we're going to jump uh and we'll yeah we'll backfill but we're going to jump to the fifth pedic of the cowboy the fifth chapter to the seventh mishnah uh just to talk about a couple of ideas important ideas i believe on how a person should carry himself or on how a person should carry himself or herself and really the reason i jumped to this is because i was inspired by a text message exchange that i had with someone a couple of days ago and i'll tell you about that at the end but that's what really inspired me to to uh to want to teach this tonight to share it with you tonight so the um the the pedagogy starts out the nationality of prokaryotes starts out with of prokaryotes starts out with identifying certain types of people so let's get those types of people locked in first type of person that the mishnah identifies is someone called a golem a golem is what we would envision as an a very primitive man a person who's not quite complete where from the outside you have a sense that the person is a human being that the person is a human being but they're it's raw it's unpolished unfinished so the mishnah starts by saying that there is such a thing called the golden okay then the mishnah continues and says there's another type of person called an um is a irregular type of person whose midort whose character traits are

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