Pirke Avot, chapter four, verse twelve
In Which Your Humble Blogger goes on with a sermon, instead of buckling down to the derivation of p’rak’lit and cotaygore.
Category: Scripture
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse eleven
In Which Your Humble Blogger registers dissent.
Naomi and Ruth, and non-genetic transmission of the line
In Which Your Humble Blogger wishes y’all a Guntif Yuntiff
Pirke Avot chapter four, verses nine and ten
In Which Your Humble Blogger ventures to disagree with Rabbi Ishmael ben Yose, although that may be because YHB misunderstood what was going on.
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse eight
In Which Your Humble Blogger finds something behind the connotations, or under them. It might not have been there before I found it, but I think it’s there now, anyway.
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse seven
In Which Your Humble Blogger neglects to mention that some texts include the advice against going to law school, but surely that’s a given.
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse six
In Which Your Humble Blogger realizes, belatedly, that the point of the Four Sons is not that we should be like the sons, but that we should be like the father.
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse five: shame and reputation
In Which Your Humble Blogger skipped a week; do you think anyone noticed?
The Passover Seder, reconsidered
In Which Your Humble Blogger is led to a new understanding of the text and performance thereof, and begs for Gentle Readers to keep leading in new directions.
Pirke Avot chapter four, verse four: m’od m’od
In Which Your Humble Blogger gets a different perspective on an old problem.