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Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe’s Lectures on Pirkei Avos (Chapters of the Fathers)
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Listening is a lost art. To truly listen and consider the other person’s position is becoming increasingly rarer. We get consumed with our o...

Questions are arguably the most potent tool by which to open up a complex subject. Asking questions on a given matter; asking many, diverse...

What is our relationship with our studies? For some (many?) studying Torah is very important. It is a great priority. But is it the permanen...

Truth and peace are often incompatible. A peaceful solution to a problem is often not truthful; unvarnished truth is rarely diplomatic. In w...

Not everyone is a saint. In fact, the verse testifies that there is no righteous person in the land who does only good and never sins. So ev...

Everyone is going through something. Everyone has difficulties in life. That is the human condition. It is also all by design. But we are in...

There was a need to render halachic rulings. Sometimes there was uncertainty and there’s a need to have a halachic decisor render a ruling....

It is a mark of Torah ignorance to be content with the degree of Torah study that you have. It is broader than the land and deeper than the...

Honor is a funny thing. It yields no tangible, discernible, sensory benefit to the recipient, yet it is so highly coveted and desired. We al...

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Charity is a big element of religious life. Our Sages tell us that the mitzvah of charity equals all the mitzvos of the Torah combined. But...

Why dont humans naturally love each other? Why is there often discord and disunity? Humans are a strange bunch indeed. In this very interest...

The requirement to love God is featured prominently in our religion. The Shema – the pledge of allegiance of our faith – contains the mitzva...

Torah was not given to angels. Torah was given to humans. One way to expand our ability to acquire Torah is by enhancing our humanity. The m...

We love Torah. Torah study is our national pastime and obsession. It is enjoyable; it is fun; it is interesting — but to acquire it – we hav...

Humans are fallible. We are imperfect, yet we are tasked with being the stewards and the guardians of the perfect. We hold the Almighty’s To...

There is an unequal distribution of talents, gifts, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Everyone is different. Everyone is their own world...

The greatest pedagogues of history – the Sages of the Mishnah – codified “knowing your place” as a means to acquire Torah, to acquire wisdom...

Life is full of nuisances. For many – maybe all – life inevitably contains some pain, suffering, and affliction. How we approach these situa...

Our primary responsibility as humans and as Jews is to develop and deepen our faith in the Creator. Can we have faith in man? Can we have fa...

Although the study of Torah is ostensibly a cognitive pursuit, there are many qualities that are not cognitive nature that facilitate and en...

Anger is part of the human experience. When things agitate us, we get frustrated and have a tendency to lash out, to berate, to say things t...

Life is serious. Pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of truth. Pursuit of wisdom is the pursuit of understanding the Divine (to the best of our...

We are speaking beings. In fact, the central differentiation between humanity and animals is the capacity of verbal communication. The judgm...

We all need to sleep. All humans, irrespective of their intelligence, their physical prowess, their wealth, must lay down in a comatose stat...

Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain are hardwired impulses . We all want to feel good and to avoid feeling bad. Perhaps surprisingly,...

Our resources are finite. We must engage in trade-offs, deciding what pursuits to prioritize over others. This, of course, is all well known...

The central conflict of our lives orients around our relationship with the physical world in which we currently inhabit: the Torah teaches u...

The oral Torah is vast, comprehensive, and multi-layered. One of its layers is known as Mishnah. What is Mishnah, how was it organized and c...

Our works of Scripture are all prophetic, each written with varying degrees of prophecy. When we study Scripture we are encountering the wor...

Humans are not monolithic. Each one of us is unique and have a unique take on every life situation. The truth is even more granular: even wi...

One of the most rewarding things a person can do is to teach others. But beyond the feeling of gratification that comes with teaching, When...

Humans are not perfect. Only God is. We are fallible. We are mistake-prone. Yet our mission and mandate is to discover truth. That is achiev...

Our glorious tradition was perpetuated from generation to generation, from teacher to student, from parent to child, for thousands of years....

Our sages tell us that one of the ways to acquire wisdom is with purity. What exactly is purity and why would it be a means through which we...

Joy is an underappreciated aspect of the life of a Jew. One can imagine that you can fulfill all of your religious and spiritual obligations...

Humility is one of the attributes most associated with acquisition of wisdom. Moses was the humblest of men. Sinai was an unassuming, lowly...

Fear of Heaven is – together with Love of God – one of the two pillars of our spiritual life. Fear of God is one of the central themes of ou...

The next way to acquire Torah is with awe. Specifically, awe for a great Torah sage. Why would a Sage inspire awe? Why would this be a metho...

What happens when you absorb information? How do you process it? The fourth way to develop wisdom talks about the intuition of the heart. Th...

The mouth is our superpower. Through it we convey ideas and articulate thoughts. The third way to wisdom is to arrange our lips. This entail...

The second way to wisdom is to listen with your ears. In this podcast you will learn about the power of learning via listening. Audio learni...

Torah is unlike other intellectual pursuits. Torah is the word of God and it is intended to fundamentally transform a person. It is not just...

The Torah scholar plays a significant role in the world. We believe that the reason why the Almighty created the world was for Torah study....

Food is delicious and we desire it from the first day that we are alive. How does our pursuit of food – and physical and material indulgence...

Torah study is the greatest of pursuits. Consequently, you are eternally indebted to anyone who bestows upon you Torah. In this fascinating...

Studying Torah is the greatest Mitzvah. That is well-known. In this Mishnah, we learn about the perils of neglecting Torah study. Along the...

What does Torah study do for a person? As an outsider, it looks like a waste of time. What benefit do you gain from studying ancient Jewish...

We believe in reward and punishment. We believe that the Almighty will dispense reward for those who do good and punishment for those whose...
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