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  • Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise (4:1)

    Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise (4:1)
    2025/05/12
    Does it make sense to take pride in one’s intellect, fitness, or wealth? Our Sages teach us that those things are determined before someone is born, and therefore it would be ludicrous for us to take pride in what was given to us by God. But in a seminal teaching, Ben Zoma reveals that there […]
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    50 分
  • Complex Calculations (3:23)

    Complex Calculations (3:23)
    2025/05/09
    What is the relationship between Torah and secular disciplines such as astronomy mathematics? In a pithy and cryptic teaching, Rabbi Elazar Chisma – a Sage who excelled in both – offers an insightful perspective. This Ethics Podcast was originally released on the Ethics Podcast on Sep 1, 2019 – – – – – – – […]
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    34 分
  • Preconditions to Torah (3:21-22)

    Preconditions to Torah (3:21-22)
    2025/05/07
    Torah is unlike any other discipline. Every other discipline can be acquired without preconditions; Torah can only be unlocked by someone who has successfully primed himself for that lofty status. In this Mishnah, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah instructs us on what is needed before Torah can flourish within us. This Ethics Podcast was originally released […]
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    32 分
  • Hotel Incidentals (3:20)

    Hotel Incidentals (3:20)
    2025/04/30
    In his fourth and final teaching, Rabbi Akiva shares a powerful and serious parable that is designed to shake us up and take life seriously but also contains the undertones of a very inspirational and comforting message. This Ethics Podcast was originally released on the Ethics Podcast on Jun 16, 2019 – – – – […]
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    30 分
  • World Building (3:18)

    World Building (3:18)
    2025/04/25
    In an astonishingly profound teaching, Rabbi Akiva informs us of the special role that humans have in completing the objective of the Almighty’s creation; and the amplified role that our nation has in effectuating that; and the tools that we were given to achieve that goal. This Ethics Podcast was originally released on the Ethics […]
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    29 分
  • Bulletproof Fences (3:17)

    Bulletproof Fences (3:17)
    2025/04/23
    Rabbi Akiva is one of the titanic figures of the Mishnaic Era. He served as the vital link transmitting the Torah that he studied from his predecessors to his students amid ceaseless oppression under the Romans. In the first of three consecutive Mishnas authored by Rabbi Akiva, we learn the keys to avoiding catastrophic promiscuity, […]
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    1 時間 13 分
  • Greeting Everyone with Joy (3:16)

    Greeting Everyone with Joy (3:16)
    2025/04/18
    Rabbi Yishmael was the scion of one of the most prestigious families of our nation and a titanic Sage of the Mishnaic Era. In this podcast we share several of the fascinating stories about his fruitful and sometimes tragic life and explore the connection between those episodes and his teaching in Pirkei Avos. This Ethics […]
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    59 分
  • Stairway to Heaven (3:15)

    Stairway to Heaven (3:15)
    2025/04/16
    Rabbi Elazar from Modi’in shares a list of five very different things that disqualify its doer from Olam Haba. What is the connection between these five things and why would one who does them be locked out of eternity? This Ethics Podcast was originally released on the Ethics Podcast on Apr 3, 2019 – – […]
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    47 分