Pirkei Avos
Reading these moral chapters of truth helps us write our own moral chapters in life.
Starting after Passover, there is a custom to read a chapter of the “Ethics Of Our Fathers” every Shabbat up till Rosh Hashanah. Do you want to get rich fast? Are you looking for the key to wisdom? Then you have come to the right place. From the Golden Rule to the secret of friendship; from the ideas of government to the ideal time to get married; from whether one can one have Torah without Ethics to whether one can one have Ethics without Torah, the Ethics of our Fathers is a book that will leave you smiling, will leave you wiser, and, if you really heed it’s advice, it will leave you richer.
The Inner Ear
Asked Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov: Have you ever met someone who told you that he hears this echo? To what purpose, then, is this proclamation if no one hears it?
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Perpetual Rebirth
Reality is nothing but the fact of G-d’s will to create it, as it is, in the present micro-moment.
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Personal Politics
One must avail oneself of this government. But one must also deeply mistrust it, being aware of its self-bias.
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Rabbi Eliezer & Rabbi Elazar
Trick question: Who was greater? Rabbi Eliezer or Rabbi Elezar?
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The Mirror
If he senses his fellow’s degradation, he must conclude that Divine providence has provided him with a mirror with which to discern his own shortcomings.
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The Upside-Down Tree
A person’s deeds are embedded in the soil of supra-rational faith and commitment, and nourish his understanding of himself, his world and his G-d.
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Do You Want to be Rich?
If you wish to be truly rich, our mishnah is saying, expend only the toil of your “hands,” the more external elements of your talents and faculties, in your material involvements, reserving the “toil of your head” for the more lofty things in life.
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Famous Last Words
The chassid Rabbi Moshe Rubin would tell the story of a man who had been told that he would receive all the land he could manage to cover on foot in one day.
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The Impoverished Scholar
A person who fulfills the Torah in poverty—who recognizes the poverty of his mind before the infinite perfection of the divine truth—will ultimately fulfill it in wealth.
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