Tag: PirkeAvot

From Simchat Torah 2008 through Simchas Torah 2010, taking a year off and then picking up again on Simchas Torah 2011 and finishing in April 2012, Your Humble Blogger wrote notes on Pirke Avot for the Tohu Bohu. These are those.

Pirke Avot Chapter Five, verse twenty-three

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In Which Your Humble Blogger could point out that the initial letters of la’asot retzon Avicha shebashamayim spell out l’rosh, or to the head, in common the Hebrew idiom the first, or principal, or most important. So that’s kinda cool.

Pirke Avot Chapter Five, verse twenty-one

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In Which Your Humble Blogger should probably have found a way to make a Jereboam joke on St. Patrick’s day, as it’s hard to imagine there will be another such opportunity. Ah, well.

Pirke Avot Chapter Five, verse seventeen

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In Which Your Humble Blogger receives the reward for remembering to put the e before the i after the c, which YHB generally screws up in that word, mostly through not attending properly to what I’m doing.