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Pirkei Avos in Real Life — 68 episodes

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1

Essential Pairings and The French Revolution

2

The Human Condition and the Banquet

3

Divine Justice and Human Action

4

Everything is known. To whom?

5

Tzelem, Banim, Love and Responsibility

6

The Power of Recognition: Self-Worth and Responsibility

7

Tithes, Vows, Fences, and Silence

8

Fences for Kedusha

9

The Cognitive vs. The Spontaneous—Two Paths to Greeting Others

10

Navigating Relationships with Gracefully

11

Swift or Deliberate, Always Pleasant

12

Sanctity, Self-Worth, and the Human Role

13

Denying Kedusha on many levels - Nihilism?

14

Physical needs and Boundaries

15

Sleep, Wine, Childlike, Chill. Carefully

16

Pleasing Hashem and Others

17

What "pleases" Hashem k'viyachol?

18

Adding Purpose to Wisdom

19

The Purpose of Knowledge. Yiras Shamayim

20

Forgetting Can Endanger the Nefesh, How to Remember More

21

Forgetting Our Learning: Culpable or Not

22

Beauty in the world is not a contradiction to Torah, but...

23

Why Hashem did not distribute wealth equally

24

Two Motivations — Two Outcomes. The pleasant Yoke

25

The Need to be Needed

26

The Kotkzer on finding a Teacher. And, Good Stress!

27

Accepting Limitation and Responsibility

28

Alone at night or on the road. Danger?

29

Filet for the Soul and the Value of One, Two, and Three

30

Learning Together, Learning Alone, Tune in to Shechina

31

Who Governs Me?

32

You Are A Role Model! Din,then Cheshbon?

33

Akavya vs Rebbe? Look at Which 3 Things?

34

Why Did Rabbi Tarfon call Hashem "Baal HaBayis?"

35

What Lies Beyond Logic?

36

Six Degrees of Separation from Hashem and How to Overcome Them

37

The Value of Arrogance

38

It's hard to focus on Davening

39

For Heaven's Sake? and Imitation Isn't Always Sincere

40

What's In It FROM Me?

41

You CAN take it with you!

42

Shame and Honor

43

It's NOT Which is it? It's When and How for Each!

44

Mi ha-Ish ha-Chafetz Chaim? The question ends there.

45

Offering Praise: A Risk / Benefit Analysis

46

Why Learn Torah in Utero only to Forget at Birth?

47

Trapped by Ambiguity? Acceptance of Limitation

48

Chanoch l'Naar al pi darcho, or else!

49

What do you have to offer? What's stopping you from offering it?

50

Fear. Of Hashem. Of Shame. Of Failure

51

When I Get a Chance, I'll...

52

Don't Think You Are Set for Life, Either Way!

53

Nullifying someone else's will. Even Hashem's?

54

Our role in Zchus Avos and Emahos

55

The Angel that Makes Our Torah Real

56

Reach out and touch someone, carefully

57

What's in it FOR me? and Think vs Ponder

58

What's in it FROM me?

59

Should? Says who? and Be a naar

60

Why Do a Mitzvah?

61

How and When to do a Mitzvah

62

Risk Benefit Analysis. Who Matters?

63

How Tefilah Works

64

Too much silence

65

Silence, and When a CHAIT isn't a sin

66

Anger vs Angry Part 3, and, Love Your Money?

67

Anger vs Angry Part 1

68

Anger vs Angry Part 2