The Mishlei Podcast

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:21 - The Perks of Chasing Tzedakah and Chesed (Part 1) רֹדֵף צְדָקָה וָחָסֶד, יִמְצָא חַיִּים צְדָקָה וְכָבוֹד: This morning (2/21/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning a pasuk that looked really simple to analyze on the surface, but raised MANY nuanced questions. We developed our own approach and then read the co...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:20 - The Saving or Swallowing of Wealth (Part 2) אוֹצָר נֶחְמָד וָשֶׁמֶן בִּנְוֵה חָכָם וּכְסִיל אָדָם יְבַלְּעֶנּוּ: This morning (2/17/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing the three approaches we came up with yesterday, supplementing them with additional examples. We then learned Rabbeinu Yonah, who took th...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:20 - The Saving or Swallowing of Wealth (Part 1) אוֹצָר נֶחְמָד וָשֶׁמֶן בִּנְוֵה חָכָם וּכְסִיל אָדָם יְבַלְּעֶנּוּ: This morning (2/16/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began a new pasuk. This is a good example of a pasuk which seems to be stating a rather "cliché" Mishleic idea. The challenge with such pesukim i...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:9 + 25:4 - Solitude vs. a Contentious and Provocative Wife (Part 3) טוֹב לָשֶׁבֶת עַל פִּנַּת גָּג מֵאֵשֶׁת מִדְיָנִים וּבֵית חָבֶר: This morning (2/15/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we continued with the sugya we've been learning since Thursday. After reviewing the approaches we've gained so far, we flipped to Mis...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 11:11 - How to Raise Up or Tear Down Your City בְּבִרְכַּת יְשָׁרִים תָּרוּם קָרֶת וּבְפִי רְשָׁעִים תֵּהָרֵס: Last night (2/14/22), in our Monday Night Mishlei Shiur, we learned a sequel to last week's pasuk. Whereas last week everyone in the shiur contributed to a UNIFIED approach, this week everyone came up with DIFFERENT a...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:19 - Solitude vs. a Contentious and Provocative Wife (Part 2) טוֹב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר מֵאֵשֶׁת [מִדְיָנִים] (מדונים) וָכָעַס: [Note: the internet connection was bad today; pardon the interruptions in the recording.] This morning (2/14/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we continued learning the pasuk we started on Thursday...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:19 - Solitude vs. a Contentious and Provocative Wife (Part 1) טוֹב שֶׁבֶת בְּאֶרֶץ מִדְבָּר מֵאֵשֶׁת [מִדְיָנִים] (מדונים) וָכָעַס: This morning (2/10/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began a new pasuk which is similar to a pasuk we learned earlier in the perek (21:9). We ended up developing a really nice idea which answere...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:18 - The Wicked as Atonement/Ransom for the Righteous (Part 3) כֹּפֶר לַצַּדִּיק רָשָׁע וְתַחַת יְשָׁרִים בּוֹגֵד: This morning (2/9/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we spent one more day on our pasuk. First we revisited Saadia Gaon's explanation. Yesterday we were troubled by it, but today we came up with two approaches...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:18 - The Wicked as Atonement/Ransom for the Righteous (Part 2) כֹּפֶר לַצַּדִּיק רָשָׁע וְתַחַת יְשָׁרִים בּוֹגֵד: This morning (2/8/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we continued our analysis of yesterday's pasuk. After our review of yesterday, I summarized the definitions of the key terms, as we've developed them in...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 11:10 - Joy to the City בְּטוּב צַדִּיקִים תַּעֲלֹץ קִרְיָה וּבַאֲבֹד רְשָׁעִים רִנָּה: Yesterday (2/7/22), in our Monday Night Mishlei Shiur, we learned yet another pasuk about tzadikim and reshaim. The good news is that our analysis was exceedingly fruitful - in terms of the questions, the ideas, and the methodology. We emerged w...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:18 - The Wicked as Atonement/Ransom for the Righteous (Part 1) כֹּפֶר לַצַּדִּיק רָשָׁע וְתַחַת יְשָׁרִים בּוֹגֵד: This morning (2/7/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning what LOOKED to be an intimidating pasuk - intimidating because literally every term needed to be defined and explained, and intimidating because...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:17 - The True Cost of Partying, Wine, and Oil (Part 2) אִישׁ מַחְסוֹר אֹהֵב שִׂמְחָה אֹהֵב יַיִן וָשֶׁמֶן לֹא יַעֲשִׁיר: Today's (2/3/22) Morning Mishlei shiur was jam-packed! In addition to reviewing the three ideas we developed yesterday, we also learned an additional SIX explanations of our pasuk! This pasuk certainly br...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:17 - The True Cost of Partying, Wine, and Oil (Part 1) אִישׁ מַחְסוֹר אֹהֵב שִׂמְחָה אֹהֵב יַיִן וָשֶׁמֶן לֹא יַעֲשִׁיר: And we're back! This morning (2/3/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we resumed our learning of Chapter 21. Today's pasuk was easy to read, but it was surprisingly difficult to figure out the subject...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:9 - A Thorn in the Hand of a Drunkard (Part 2) חוֹחַ עָלָה בְיַד שִׁכּוֹר וּמָשָׁל בְּפִי כְסִילִים: This morning (1/13/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we learned the Meiri's commentary on this entire set of pesukim (26:6-9). He offered a number of different interpretations, some of which corresponded to what we had said...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:9 - A Thorn in the Hand of a Drunkard (Part 1) חוֹחַ עָלָה בְיַד שִׁכּוֹר וּמָשָׁל בְּפִי כְסִילִים: This morning (1/12/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began our analysis of the third and final pasuk in our series on the topic of "how fools use Mishlei." We came up with three approaches of our own, the third of w...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:8 - The Dangers of Honoring a Ksil (Part 2) כִּצְרוֹר אֶבֶן בְּמַרְגֵּמָה כֵּן נוֹתֵן לִכְסִיל כָּבוֹד: This morning (1/11/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we continued our analysis of yesterday's pasuk. After recapping a related idea from last NIGHT's Mishlei pasuk (11:9), we recapped our approaches from yesterday a...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 11:9 - How Tzadikim Evade Flattery בְּפֶה חָנֵף יַשְׁחִת רֵעֵהוּ וּבְדַעַת צַדִּיקִים יֵחָלֵצוּ: This evening (1/10/22), in our Monday Night Mishlei Shiur, we learned yet another pasuk about tzadikim. This time, they were contrasted with someone other than the rasha. After experimenting with several different approaches and transla...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:8 - The Dangers of Honoring a Ksil (Part 1) כִּצְרוֹר אֶבֶן בְּמַרְגֵּמָה כֵּן נוֹתֵן לִכְסִיל כָּבוֹד: This morning (1/10/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began a new pasuk as a continuation of the sugya we started last week. This pasuk appears to be a simple analogy about giving honor to a ksil. The more we analyzed it, t...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:7 - A Mashal with a Limp (Part 2) דַּלְיוּ שֹׁקַיִם מִפִּסֵּחַ וּמָשָׁל בְּפִי כְסִילִים: This morning (1/7/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we continued our analysis of the pasuk we started on Monday. Today was quite the fruitful day! We came away with a good 6-10 ideas, depending on how you count. I'm looking forward to...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 26:7 - A Mashal with a Limp (Part 1) דַּלְיוּ שֹׁקַיִם מִפִּסֵּחַ וּמָשָׁל בְּפִי כְסִילִים: This morning (1/3/22), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we took a detour to start a Mishlei sugya in 26:7-9. My interest in these pesukim was prompted by a quotation from Amos Tversky (Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist, and recip...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:16 - Resting in the Congregation of the Dead אָדָם תּוֹעֶה מִדֶּרֶךְ הַשְׂכֵּל בִּקְהַל רְפָאִים יָנוּחַ: This morning (12/30/21), in our Morning Mishlei shiur, we began a new, dramatic pasuk. We came up with a really nice interpretation which was beautifully expanded upon by the Rav in Halakhic Man. We came up with what we THIN...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:15 - Joy in Justice and its Opposite (Part 2) שִׂמְחָה לַצַּדִּיק עֲשׂוֹת מִשְׁפָּט וּמְחִתָּה לְפֹעֲלֵי אָוֶן: This morning (12/29/21) we continued with the pasuk we learned yesterday. After developing an additional original approach, we learned another nice idea from the Meiri, then we went back to the Rabbeinu Yonah from yest...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 21:15 - Joy in Justice and its Opposite (Part 1) שִׂמְחָה לַצַּדִּיק עֲשׂוֹת מִשְׁפָּט וּמְחִתָּה לְפֹעֲלֵי אָוֶן: This morning (12/28/21) we began a new syntactically ambiguous pasuk that has something to do with the joy experienced by the tzadik when justice is done. Beyond that, our pasuk can be read in a number of ways. Today w...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 11:8 - How the Rasha Gets Into the Trouble from Which the Tzadik Escaped צַדִּיק מִצָּרָה נֶחֱלָץ וַיָּבֹא רָשָׁע תַּחְתָּיו: This evening (12/27/21), in our Monday Night Mishlei Shiur, we enjoyed had a "riddle style" pasuk that was quite straightforward to read. We managed to get several nice ideas from it which contribu...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! No, this isn't a mistaken upload! This morning (12/23/21), during our usual Mishlei time, we had a session of Rambam Bekius! Since the last two pesukim we learned were about how to relate and how not to relate to the poor, and since Mishlei was written to make Torah more accessible, we thought it would be appropriate to familiarize ou...