Pirkei Avos in Real Life
How the teachings of Pirkei Avos apply in daily life.
Episodes
The Promise of Mishna 4:9: External Circumstances vs. Internal Transformation
The Bigger Challenge: Poverty or Wealth?
The Hazards of Solitary Judgment & Imposing One's Will
Humility And Hesitation Before Rendering Legal Or Spiritual Verdicts
Honoring Torah brings true honor; cheapening it brings public disgrace.
Honoring the Torah: Respect, Conduct, and Dignity
Don't Dig with an Axe
Honor, Gain, and Proper Intentions (Rabi Tzadok)
Fulfillment in Learning and Teaching
Intent and Motive in Learning
Desecration of Hashem's Name in Private
Exceeding in Humility (Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh)
Everyone, Everything Has A Place Or a Time
The Time and the Place
The Momentum of Actions
The Internalized Life: Personal Responsibility in Character and Action
The Internalized Life: Personal Responsibility in Character and Action
Counter-Intuitive Definitions of Success
Changing the Definitions of Success: Internalizing Wisdom, Strength, and Wealth
Who is Wise, Who is Strong
Humility and True Worth
Branches and Roots, Appetizers and Mains, Intro to Defining Success
Essential Pairings and The French Revolution
The Human Condition and the Banquet
Divine Justice and Human Action
Everything is known. To whom?
Tzelem, Banim, Love and Responsibility
The Power of Recognition: Self-Worth and Responsibility
Tithes, Vows, Fences, and Silence
Fences for Kedusha
The Cognitive vs. The Spontaneous—Two Paths to Greeting Others
Navigating Relationships with Gracefully
Swift or Deliberate, Always Pleasant
Sanctity, Self-Worth, and the Human Role
Denying Kedusha on many levels - Nihilism?
Physical needs and Boundaries
Sleep, Wine, Childlike, Chill. Carefully
Pleasing Hashem and Others
What "pleases" Hashem k'viyachol?
Adding Purpose to Wisdom
The Purpose of Knowledge. Yiras Shamayim
Forgetting Can Endanger the Nefesh, How to Remember More
Forgetting Our Learning: Culpable or Not
Beauty in the world is not a contradiction to Torah, but...
Why Hashem did not distribute wealth equally
Two Motivations — Two Outcomes. The pleasant Yoke
The Need to be Needed
The Kotkzer on finding a Teacher. And, Good Stress!
Accepting Limitation and Responsibility
Alone at night or on the road. Danger?
Filet for the Soul and the Value of One, Two, and Three
Learning Together, Learning Alone, Tune in to Shechina
Who Governs Me?
You Are A Role Model! Din,then Cheshbon?
Akavya vs Rebbe? Look at Which 3 Things?
Why Did Rabbi Tarfon call Hashem "Baal HaBayis?"
What Lies Beyond Logic?
Six Degrees of Separation from Hashem and How to Overcome Them
The Value of Arrogance
It's hard to focus on Davening
For Heaven's Sake? and Imitation Isn't Always Sincere
What's In It FROM Me?
You CAN take it with you!
Shame and Honor
It's NOT Which is it? It's When and How for Each!
Mi ha-Ish ha-Chafetz Chaim? The question ends there.
Offering Praise: A Risk / Benefit Analysis
Why Learn Torah in Utero only to Forget at Birth?
Trapped by Ambiguity? Acceptance of Limitation
Chanoch l'Naar al pi darcho, or else!
What do you have to offer? What's stopping you from offering it?
Fear. Of Hashem. Of Shame. Of Failure
When I Get a Chance, I'll...
Don't Think You Are Set for Life, Either Way!
Nullifying someone else's will. Even Hashem's?
Our role in Zchus Avos and Emahos
The Angel that Makes Our Torah Real
Reach out and touch someone, carefully
What's in it FOR me? and Think vs Ponder
What's in it FROM me?
