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Do you ever feel that you still haven’t figured out what you’ll do “when you grow up”?
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Ethics 1:3
Using Torah law (to which, we are told, G-d conforms) as our criterion, what would G-d's obligations toward us be when we labor to fulfill the purpose towards which He placed us in the world?
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Ethics 1:6
We can appreciate the connection between a mentor and a friend. But why is the lesson of judging people favorably taught in the same sentence?
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Ethics 1:14
In the immortal words of the famous first century sage Hillel: "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?..." In other words: I need to look after myself; who else should? So where's the problem with selfishness? For that, we need to consider the rest of Hillel's statement...
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Ethics 1:17
The ability to communicate is central to human function. Why then would the sages suggest that silence is a value worth pursuing? Isn't silence the absence of speech?
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