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Blogging Avot: Hating Rabbis (or Authority)
Pirkei Avot 1:10 has some translation issues. Though I’ve been using a different translation until, now, here I’ll start with ...
Blogging Avot: Bad Neighbors
Pirkei Avot 1:7 is a short mishnah with further advice about who to (and in this case, who not to) ...
Blogging Avot: Friends & Teachers
Pirkei Avot 1:6 continues the conversation about social ethics, which began in Mishnah 4. 1:6 – Joshua ben Perachyah and ...
Blogging Avot: Watch Out for Women
The fourth and fifth mishnayot of Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 begin a series of teachings about ethical socializing — and ...
Blogging Avot: Religion & Reward
The third mishnah of Pirkei Avot focuses on motivations for serving God and includes some very interesting language. 1:3 – ...
Blogging Avot: Simon the Righteous
Pirkei Avot Chapter 1, Mishnah 2 reads: 1:2 – Simon the Righteous was one of the last survivors of the ...
Blogging Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot, literally Chapters of the Fathers, but more commonly translated “Ethics of the Fathers,” is one of the most ...
Exodus & Revolution
MyJewishLearning.com is co-sponsoring a pre-Passover six-part class on Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution along with AJWS, AVODAH, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, ...
The Eighth Day of the Week
A community’s sacred texts shed light on its beliefs and values. This is obvious when it comes to liturgy.Hence the ...
David Weiss Halivni
It’s well worth reading Yair Sheleg’s profile of Talmud scholar and recent Israel Prize recipient David Weiss Halivni. Among the ...