Commentary regarding Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)
Yesterday’s reading regarding the sending away of the mother bird (Deut 22:6-7) gives us insight into the nature of Torah. The sending away of the mother bird is considered the “least of the commandments.” We fulfill all of the mitzvot, rather than only the “greater” ones because we do not know the reward for any …
I just want to remind people who are studying Pirkei Avot between Chag HaMatzot and Shavuot that I have the full text of Pirkei Avot available online (along with a scarce bit of commentary) here: Read the full text of Pirkei Avot (‘Ethics of the Fathers’) online Today is eight days, which are one week …
As many of you know, I’ve been going through a series of books called A Daily Dose of Torah for the past year or so. Here’s something I recently came across: “Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato (in Mesillas Yesharim Chapter 1) explains that Hashem placed man in a world that is full of situations that can …
Do C.S. Lewis and the Talmud have anything in common? Recently, my wife and I have been reading The Chronicles of Narnia to our children. We are on the third book in the series, The Horse and His Boy. Over the course of a few days I read the first half of the book (of …
Shalom Chaverim – Just a note to say that during this time of studying Pirkei Avot I was trying to update the text for it on my site and realized that I had some serious errors. Not only did I have wrong numberings of mishnayot, but chapter two was incomplete. I was missing 5 mishnayot! …
