Pirkei Avos G-d Revealed Chapter 5, Mishna 7 By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “Ten miracles were performed for our fathers in the Temple: (1) A woman never miscarried because of the aroma of the sacrificial meat. (2) Sacrificial meat never became spoiled. (3) A fly was never seen in the slaughter house. (4) The High Priest…
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Pirkei Avos
G-d Showing Off Chapter 5, Mishna 5 By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “Ten miracles were performed for our fathers in Egypt and ten at the [Red] Sea. Ten plagues did the Holy One, blessed be He, bring upon the Egyptians in Egypt and ten at the sea.” This week’s mishna makes mention of four sets of…
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Pirkei Avos Abraham’s Legacy Chapter 5, Mishna 3 By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “There were ten generations from Noah until Abraham. This shows how slow to anger G-d is, for all those generations increasingly angered Him until our forefather Abraham came and received the reward of them all.” This week’s mishna parallels the previous. Both mishnas…
Who Gave the Rabbis the Right
Chapter 1, Mishna 1(a) By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it Joshua. Joshua transmitted it to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets transmitted it to the Men of the Great Assembly. They [the Men of the Great Assembly] said three things: Be deliberate in judgment,…
Pirkei Avos
The World’s Fallen State By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld As I mentioned two weeks ago, much of Chapter 5 of Pirkei Avos contains lists. Mishna 1 discussed the Ten Utterances with which G-d created the universe. This mishna continues with the earliest generations of man. We know very little of the people of the antediluvian era….
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Pirkei Avos Spiritual Global Warming, Part IChapter 5, Mishna 1a By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld”The world was created in ten utterances. What does this come to teach us? Could not the world have been created in a single utterance? It was in order to exact punishment from the wicked who destroy the world which was created…
A Depressing World
Pirkei Avos A Depressing World Chapter 4, Mishna 29(b) By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “He (Rabbi Elazar HaKappar) used to say: The born will die, the dead will come to life, and the living will be judged — [so that] they know, make known, and become aware that He is G-d, He is the…
Halacha Yomit
How One Should Conduct Himself in the Morning The Mishnah in Pirkei Avot (Chapter 5) states: “Yehuda ben Tema says: Be bold like a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer, and mighty as a lion to perform the will of your father in Heaven.” Let us now explain this Mishnah. The Tanna…
A Controlled World
Pirkei Avos A Controlled World Chapter 4, Mishna 29(a) By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “He (Rabbi Elazar HaKappar) used to say: The born will die, the dead will come to life, and the living will be judged — [so that] they know, make known, and become aware that He is G-d, He is the Fashioner, He…
Maimonides on Life
Maimonides on Life Laws of De’os – Chapter 2, Law 5 Chapter 2, Law 5 The Torah Speaks for Itself Law 5 “A fence for wisdom is silence (Pirkei Avos 3:17 (http://www.torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos/chapter3-17d.html)). Therefore, one should not hurry to respond and not speak excessively. One should teach his students with composure and calmness, without screaming and…
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Siman 1
1 “I have set the Lord always before me.” This is a cardinal principle in the Torah and (a fundamental rule) of life among the pious who go before G-d. Because it is not how a person sits, moves and works when he is alone at home but how he sits, moves and works when…
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