In case you missed them, here's a list of items posted on Avot Today in April 2021:
Wednesday 21 April 2021: Creative Quarantine and Avot as Art: Jerusalem's Kol HaOt challenges artists to compose works based on Avot under trying conditions.
Sunday 18 April 2021: Keeping Cool, Avot-Style: a rabbi references Avot in an opinion piece for City Sun Times. Which mishnah does he have in mind?
Wednesday 14 April 2021: Derech Yasharah -- the road that leads to Israel: Rabbi BenZion Meir Chai Uziel gives a modern Zionist flavour to an ancient proposition found in Avot 2:1.
Sunday 11 April 2021: The Flaming Coals -- not so bad after all? Some apparently superfluous words in Rabbi Eliezer's warning about not to mess with the chachamim are given a positive slant.
Thursday 8 April 2021: March in April: a New Book on Avot: introducing a new book on Avot with a decidedly historical focus, Who Were the Fathers? by Martin March.
Wednesday 7 April 2021: "If I am not for me": the possible and the plausible: one of Hillel's best-known aphorisms comes up for scrutiny. The Baruch She'amar offers a tantalising explanation that we have misunderstood it for the past two millennia. Does this explanation convince?
Sunday 4 April 2021: The Fantastic Mr Jackal, or "Let Sleeping Foxes Lie": Foxes appear twice in the mishnayot of Avot, but are the Tannaim actually referring to what we regard today as foxes?
Thursday 1 April 2021: Are Politicians Immune from Good Behaviour? Avot 3:15 cautions against embarrassing one's fellow humans in public. Walter Bingham wonders how, if at all, this applies to Israeli party activists.
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