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Torah is primarily law. In contrast, Pirkei Avot is a compilation of rabbinical wisdom and practical advice. Why begin it by chronicling the transmission of Torah?
In truth, it is precisely because this tractate deals with advice directed towards each generation’s needs, and not with absolute law, that the Mishnah begins with the history of Torah leadership. As we will see, this opening Mishnah establishes the right and the responsibility of the sages to give advice, and our responsibility to heed it.
Avot, which means fathers, begins with the chain of those who provided the world with spiritual life. They taught the love and the practice of Torah and enriched the world with its wisdom and values. They prepared successors to be the leaders who would guide the next generation. These people were truly the fathers of Torah society, and for this reason the tractate is called Avot.
As fathers of the nation, they must provide guidance for the survival and the success of the nation. Scripture teaches about this relationship in Mishlei 1:8, “Listen, my son, to your ‘father’s advice,’ and do not forsake the Torah of your mother.”
This passage implies that it is both the father’s right and responsibility to provide guidance. Moreover, the verse says that we must not only listen to but moreover heed the advice of our fathers.
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Moreinu HaRav Yehudah Loew of Prague, (MaHaRaL of Prague), known as Maharal Me-Progue, lived over 400 years ago, from 1512to 1609. He was a contemporary of Rav Yosef Karo, author of the Shulchan Aruch, and the master of Torah’s secrets, Rav Yitzchok Luria, Ari’zal. Maharal taught a metaphysical system that draws upon the Zohar and later Kabbalistic works. Using that method, his explanations of the Talmudic and Midrashic homiletics are systematic, consistent and relevant. Maharal’s teachings have provided a framework for authentic Jewish philosophy down to our own generations.
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Shmuel “Sam” Peak teachings are now available in mp3 audio files,
and can be accessed through iTunes.
Biblical Faith – Shmuel “Sam” Peak
Weekly series with new shows available every Tuesday.
When Israel ascended to the Beit haMikdosh for the holidays and stood in the Azora, the courtyard was crowded with everyone pressed against each other so tightly, that many of them were swept off their feet and were suspended between the adjacent bodies. When they came to prostrate themselves and this naturally would take more room than it did for standing, they not only have sufficient space but each person had room between himself and the next person in which he could whisper his prayers or confession with perfect privacy.
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When HaShem created the universe, then, He first created, as the astronomers tells us, though not taking the billions of years they so confidently specify, a speck of super-dense matter and caused it to explode. When the earth, the sun, the planets, and the stars which grew out of the explosion reached the size that HaShem planned for them He commanded them to stop growing.
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We need not bother that astronomers assert that the universe began with one particle of matter, while the Sages mention “two spools of thread.” Astronomers and the Sages are referring to two different moments. The universe did begin with one speck of super-dense matter which began expanding. At the next moment HaShem divided the matter into two equal parts. From one the earth was created and from the other, heaven.
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When HaShem had Ya’akov Obinu stay the night at the site of the Beit haMikdash, He by that very fact, without doing anything to the structure of Eretz Yisrael, assured that all the land was beneath him, for the rock he slept on, its deepest parts, underlies all Eretz Yisrael. Afterwards HaShem took the loose stone on which he had laid his head and sunk it into the earth and attached it to the primeval Foundation Stone (Evven Shetiyah)around which the world was created.
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Seven things were created before the world: the Torah, t’shuva, Gan Eden, Gehinom, the Kisei haKavod, the Beit haMikdash, and the name of the Mashiach. We know that the Kisei haKavod and the Beit haMikdash were so created, for Scripture (Yirmiya 17:12) states, “The Glorious Throne, high from the first; the place of our Beit haMikdash.”
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