Rabbi Ike Hanon – Pirkei Avot 1:1 - Torah From a Mountain | Pirkei Avot

Rabbi Ike Hanon hosts classes every day at 6:10 AM at West Deal Shul.Rabbi Ike Hanon opens with a brief halachic discussion on Birkat Ha'Ilanot, clarifying that according to Shulchan Aruch one may recite the blessing as long as fruits have not yet grown, even after the month of Nisan, though the Kabbalistic preference is to recite it during Nisan. He then turns to the opening Mishnah of Pirkei Avot, which states that Moshe received the Torah 'from Sinai,' raising the question of why the Torah is attributed to a mountain rather than to Hashem directly. He presents the Hamoadia's answer that the blessing came in the merit of Har Sinai's humility, which mirrored Moshe Rabbeinu's own defining trait of anava. Rabbi Hanon then offers his own chidush, rooted in a Midrash connecting 'mountains' to the Avot, suggesting that Moshe received the Torah 'from the mountains' — meaning from the merit and tradition of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. He concludes that the chain of mesora recorded in Pirkei Avot does not begin at Har Sinai but traces back even further to the Avot, the true giants upon whose shoulders Moshe stood.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Visit: westdealshul.orgSponsorships: [email protected]