Avos 4:4 - Be Very, Very Humble (Part 1)

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Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (3/28/24), in our Thursday night Pirkei Avos shiur for women, we began learning the next mishnah which is about humility - or, to be precise, "extreme lowliness of spirit." We started learning through the Rambam's lengthy commentary, which is essentially a treatise on humility, but because this required us to do an overview of the Rambam's entire approach to character traits in Hilchos Deios, we only made it through the first two paragraphs of his commentary here. We had a good review and got some nice insights, but there is much, much more to be said about being very, very humble. To be continued! (בג"ה)
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מקורות:
אבות ד:ד
רמב"ם
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות דעות פרקים א-ב
William Ernest Henley, "Invictus"
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