Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Synopsis: Tonight (10/19/23), in Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we began a new mishnah. Each clause follows the pattern of "without X, there is no Y, and without Y, there is no X." Tonight we analyzed the first of these: "without derech eretz, there is no Torah, and without Torah, there is no derech eretz." We came up with a few ideas on our own, and then learned three approaches from the meforshim. Next time we'll tackle chochmah and yirah!

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מקורות:
אבות ג:יט
רמב"ם
תוספות יום טוב
ר' יצחק שילת - ביאור לפירוש המשניות לרמב"ם
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר אהבה, הלכות ברכות פרק ז
ירמיהו ט:כב-כג
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תלמוד תורה ד:א
רבינו יונה
מאירי
ספורנו

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