In case you missed them, here's a list of items posted on Avot Today in OCTOBER 2022:
Friday 28 October 2022: Noah and the limits of patience. The righteous captain of the Ark is name-checked twice in Avot. Are these references purely historical or can we learn from them?
Wednesday 26 October 2022: Relevance in retrospect. Here's a commentary on Pirkei Avot that was published way back in 2007. Called Relevance, is it still relevant today?
Monday 24 October 2022: The Bad Neighbour problem: Nittai HaArbeli (Avot 1:7) warns us to keep far away from a bad neighbour. Is this practical in today's world -- and how, if at all, does it apply to the social media?
Friday 21 October 2022: Gratitude versus Jealousy: keeping it in the family. A curious piece of advice from Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky appears to place different provisions of Pirkei Avot in conflict with one another.
Thursday 20 October 2022: Quarterly Report: Avot in the Online Media. We take a look at the extent to which the provisions of Pirkei Avot are quoted on the internet. Which teachings are hot -- and which are not?
Tuesday 18 October 2022: Crowds: it'll take a miracle ... A mishnah in the fifth perek of Avot states that non-one complained of overcrowding in Jerusalem in Temple times. Two thousand years later, how do we match up to our forebears?
Friday 7 October 2022: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? We take a look at the central role of truth in Jewish ethics.
Tuesday 4 October 2022: Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we repent. On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we remember that Avot has something constructive to say on the topic.
Monday 3 October 2022: Do it deliberately! We all act on autopilot sometimes, but the advice of the Men of the Great Assembly is that we should stop and think before taking decisions,
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