The Mishlei Podcast

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:11 - The Grave, Destruction, and Kal va'Chomer Human Hearts (Part 2) שְׁאוֹל וַאֲבַדּוֹן נֶגֶד י"י אַף כִּי לִבּוֹת בְּנֵי אָדָם: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/12/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing and refining some of yesterday's approaches. We then learned three approaches f...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:11 - The Grave, Destruction, and Kal va'Chomer Human Hearts (Part 1) שְׁאוֹל וַאֲבַדּוֹן נֶגֶד י"י אַף כִּי לִבּוֹת בְּנֵי אָדָם: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/11/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a strange pasuk which looks like it belongs in Iyov or Tehilim rather than in Mishlei. We came...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:18 - Pride Goeth Before Breaking and Stumbling לִפְנֵי שֶׁבֶר גָּאוֹן, וְלִפְנֵי כִשָּׁלוֹן גֹּבַהּ רוּחַ: Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Synopsis: This evening (12/9/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned what is probably one of the most oft-quoted well, oft-paraphrased) pesukim in the world. The main thrust was obvious...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:10 - Bad Mussar (Part 2) מוּסָר רָע לְעֹזֵב אֹרַח שׂוֹנֵא תוֹכַחַת יָמוּת: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/5/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we continued learning yesterday's pasuk and encountered a surprising level of difficulty. Metzudas David didn't give us much to work with. Rabbeinu Yonah was clea...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:10 - Bad Mussar (Part 1) מוּסָר רָע לְעֹזֵב אֹרַח שׂוֹנֵא תוֹכַחַת יָמוּת: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/4/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning an unusually difficult-to-translate pasuk. It's not uncommon for us to have multiple translations for a given pasuk, but we had SEVEN different ways...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:17 - Mesilas Yesharim According to Mishlei מְסִלַּת יְשָׁרִים סוּר מֵרָע שֹׁמֵר נַפְשׁוֹ נֹצֵר דַּרְכּוֹ: Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Synopsis: This evening (12/2/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the pasuk from which the title of the classic mussar work "Mesilas Yesharim" is derived. We had a surprising...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:9 - Hashem's Love and Loathing in Mishlei (Part 2) תּוֹעֲבַת י"י דֶּרֶךְ רָשָׁע וּמְרַדֵּף צְדָקָה יֶאֱהָב: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/28/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we set out to clarify and develop the different approaches we came up with yesterday. I THOUGHT we were going to learn the mefor...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:9 - Hashem's Love and Loathing in Mishlei (Part 1) תּוֹעֲבַת י"י דֶּרֶךְ רָשָׁע וּמְרַדֵּף צְדָקָה יֶאֱהָב: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/27/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we started learning a pasuk which appears to be connected to the previous one, which also speaks of an "abomination of Hash...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:16 - Forget Gold and Silver; Invest in Chochmah and Binah קְנֹה חׇכְמָה מַה טּוֹב מֵחָרוּץ, וּקְנוֹת בִּינָה נִבְחָר מִכָּסֶף: Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/25/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that - unlike the last six pesukim - was NOT about kings! At least, not according to us....

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:15 - The Nature of the King's Favor בְּאוֹר פְּנֵי מֶלֶךְ חַיִּים, וּרְצוֹנוֹ כְּעָב מַלְקוֹשׁ: Length: 1 hour 10 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/18/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the last pasuk in the local cluster of pesukim about kings. Once again, I was worried that we would have difficulty seeing...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:8 - Tefilah and Korbanos in Mishlei?! (Part 2) זֶבַח רְשָׁעִים תּוֹעֲבַת י"י וּתְפִלַּת יְשָׁרִים רְצוֹנוֹ: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/14/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we turned to the meforshim. We encountered some nice ideas, but also found that their approaches overlapped to the extent that it was...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:8 - Tefilah and Korbanos in Mishlei?! (Part 1) זֶבַח רְשָׁעִים תּוֹעֲבַת י"י וּתְפִלַּת יְשָׁרִים רְצוֹנוֹ: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/13/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began working on a pasuk which looks like it belongs in Tehilim or the Neviim more than in Mishlei. We worked on one approach, the...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:14 - Calming an Angry King חֲמַת מֶלֶךְ מַלְאֲכֵי מָוֶת, וְאִישׁ חָכָם יְכַפְּרֶנָּה: Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/11/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned another pasuk about kings. This one also seemed simple, but we ended up stumbling upon some surprising approaches - especially when we sa...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:7 - The Lips of the Wise vs. the Heart of Fools (Part 2) שִׂפְתֵי חֲכָמִים יְזָרוּ דָעַת וְלֵב כְּסִילִים לֹא כֵן: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/7/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we reviewed and refined yesterday's approaches, which translated יזרו as "spread" or "scatter." Today we fo...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:7 - The Lips of the Wise vs. the Heart of Fools (Part 1) שִׂפְתֵי חֲכָמִים יְזָרוּ דָעַת וְלֵב כְּסִילִים לֹא כֵן: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (11/6/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a "classic" sounding Mishlei pasuk about chachamim, ksilim, speech, and knowledge. The pasuk proved to be surpr...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:13 - The Kind of Speaker (that Should Be) Favored by Kings רְצוֹן מְלָכִים שִׂפְתֵי צֶדֶק, וְדֹבֵר יְשָׁרִים יֶאֱהָב: Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Synopsis: This evening (11/4/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned another pasuk about kings. I was a little worried because so many of our go-to meforshim had such little t...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:6 - The Blight of the Rasha in the Bayis and the Sadeh (Part 2) בֵּית צַדִּיק חֹסֶן רָב וּבִתְבוּאַת רָשָׁע נֶעְכָּרֶת: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (10/31/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing, clarifying, and developing some of the approaches we took yesterday. We then learned three new approach...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:6 - The Blight of the Rasha in the Bayis and the Sadeh (Part 1) בֵּית צַדִּיק חֹסֶן רָב וּבִתְבוּאַת רָשָׁע נֶעְכָּרֶת: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (10/30/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning a "fork-in-the-road" pasuk (i.e. one of those pesukim that lends itself to two completely differen...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:12 - Why Kings Should Abhor Acts of Wickedness תּוֹעֲבַת מְלָכִים עֲשׂוֹת רֶשַׁע, כִּי בִצְדָקָה יִכּוֹן כִּסֵּא: Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/14/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned another pasuk in this local cluster of pesukim about kings. This one seemed obvious to some, but ended up yie...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:5 - Holding Mussar in Contempt and With Cunning (Part 2) אֱוִיל יִנְאַץ מוּסַר אָבִיו וְשֹׁמֵר תּוֹכַחַת יַעְרִים: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (10/10/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we reviewed yesterday's approaches, came up with one new approach, and then learned a TON of meforshim! We didn't fully g...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:5 - Holding Mussar in Contempt and With Cunning (Part 1) אֱוִיל יִנְאַץ מוּסַר אָבִיו וְשֹׁמֵר תּוֹכַחַת יַעְרִים: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (10/9/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned what initially seemed like a classic Mishlei pasuk about fools rejecting mussar, but the nuances led us to several ideas...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:11 - Hashem's Scales of Justice פֶּלֶס וּמֹאזְנֵי מִשְׁפָּט לַי"י, מַעֲשֵׂהוּ כׇּל אַבְנֵי כִיס: Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Synopsis: This evening (10/7/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a difficult pasuk that just didn't seem to fit the Mishlei mold. We tackled it anyway, hoping we'd be rewar...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:10 - The Charm on the King's Lips קֶסֶם עַל שִׂפְתֵי מֶלֶךְ, בְּמִשְׁפָּט לֹא יִמְעַל פִּיו: Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/30/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we took up a VERY strange pasuk. It was difficult to translate, difficult to contextualize, but we managed to come up with some really ni...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:4 - How Speech Can Vitalize or Break a Spirit (Part 2) מַרְפֵּא לָשׁוֹן עֵץ חַיִּים, וְסֶלֶף בָּהּ שֶׁבֶר בְּרוּחַ: Length: 48 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/26/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing and refining what we came up with yesterday. We then learned a completely different approach from Rabbeinu Yo...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:4 - How Speech Can Vitalize or Break a Spirit (Part 1) מַרְפֵּא לָשׁוֹן עֵץ חַיִּים, וְסֶלֶף בָּהּ שֶׁבֶר בְּרוּחַ: Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/25/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began analyzing an enigmatic riddle-of-a-pasuk. I was pleasantly surprised that we came up with two nice ideas, corresponding to...