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Ethics of the Fathers
Ethics of the Fathers is a tractate of the Mishna that details the Torah's views on ethics and interpersonal relationships. Enjoy insights, audio classes and stories on these fascinating topics.
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The Translated Text
Pirkei Avos / Ethics of the Fathers contains timeless wisdom. It is a collection of ethics, honesty, and advice. But at its very beginning it tells us that even this part of Jewish life came from Sinai. All of that is part of Judaism.
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Ethics of our Fathers
Pirkei Avot
Ethics of the Fathers contains timeless wisdom. It is a collection of ethics, honesty, and advice. But at its very beginning it tells us that even this part of Jewish life came from Sinai. All of that is part of Judaism.
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Vacation Study
By Chanie Goldman
The scent of summer is in the air. The pools are full of happy people, winter clothes are stashed away and students have a perpetual grin on their faces-- school is almost over...
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The Stuff We Are Made Of
Lessons from the Ethics of Our Fathers
By Chana Perman
People are busy rifling through the – dare I say it - junk. I must run. Run before I become entangled in that huge mess of possessions, aptly called "gar(b)age sale."
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Time in Thought » Passover & Nissan » The Stuff We Are Made Of
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A Path and a Choice
Ethics 2:1
By Yanki Tauber
Follow your bliss? If it's going to make other people like you, that's the thing to do? Not the sort of advice you'd expect from a Talmudical sage...
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The Case of the Floating Skull
Ethics 1:6
By Yosef Marcus
Moses, Pharaoh, Hillel, Maimonides and the Lubavitcher Rebbe on cosmic justice, the temporality of evil, the significance of chance encounters and the redeemability of the malevolent spirit
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Your Fellow's Place
Ethics 2:4
By Yanki Tauber
"Do not judge your fellow until you have reached his place." But since a person can never really be in his fellow's place, why doesn't the Mishnah simply say, "don't judge your fellow"?
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The Levites
Ethics 2:2
By Yanki Tauber
Heaven or earth? The kollel or the kibbutz? We Jews have been debating the issue for as long as we have been a people
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Don't Be Fair
Ethics 5:10
By Yanki Tauber
What was the horrific crime of sodom? Their credo: what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours
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