Avot in Retrospect: a summary of last month's blogposts

 In case you missed them, here's a list of items posted on Avot Today in February 2021:

Wednesday 24 February 2021: What applies to love applies also to hate -- and maybe also to fear:  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks turns a well-known mishnah on its head, with results that are of potejtially wider application.

Thursday 18 February 2021: Dissociating from the collective: what is Hillel's real position? Can we truly predict Hillel's likely reaction to people who don't return to synagogues after the Covid pandemic?

Sunday 14 February 2021: A translator's problem, a metaphor and the path to harmony:  The word "tiferet" in Avot 2:1 does not literally mean "harmony" -- but there are times when the metaphor is quite apt.

Thursday 11 February 2021: Ben Azzai, social inclusion and a little extra sunshine. Here's praise for a good citation of Ben Azzai's teaching, plus a little question about the translation of Avot 4:3.

Sunday 7 February 2021: Suffering and learning Torah: where coping is key.  One of the 48 ways of acquiring Torah is "acceptance of suffering" -- but are we extracting the right lesson from this teaching?

Thursday 4 February 2021: Creation, kindness and an apparently irrelevant detail: Here's an ingenious explanation that links the concept of kindness to the curious mishnah (Avot 5:8) that lists the ten -- or is it 14? -- things said to be created at twilight of the world's first week.

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