The Mishlei Podcast

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:21 - How to Treat the Humble/Poor   בׇּז לְרֵעֵהוּ חוֹטֵא, וּמְחוֹנֵן [עֲנָוִים] (עניים) אַשְׁרָיו Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/29/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned the next pasuk, which some meforshim connect to the previous one. We came up with a few approaches and half-approaches, then learned the...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:20 - Fair-weather Friends   גַּם לְרֵעֵהוּ יִשָּׂנֵא רָשׁ וְאֹהֲבֵי עָשִׁיר רַבִּים: Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/28/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned yet another full pasuk in one session! It was unclear at first whether this one was about wealth/poverty or love/hate, but it ended up being about the...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:14 - How to Benefit from the Fountain of Life תּוֹרַת חָכָם מְקוֹר חַיִּים לָסוּר מִמֹּקְשֵׁי מָוֶת: Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/26/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that seemed a bit trite or bland with relatively few meforshim. Our two leads were a syntactical quirk and the fact that...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:19 - Do the Wicked Bow Before the Good?   שַׁחוּ רָעִים לִפְנֵי טוֹבִים, וּרְשָׁעִים עַל שַׁעֲרֵי צַדִּיק: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/22/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned another full pasuk in one session! We were immediately confronted with the classic "Is this really true?" question, and...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:18 - Inheriting Foolishness   נָחֲלוּ פְתָאיִם אִוֶּלֶת, וַעֲרוּמִים יַכְתִּרוּ דָעַת: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/21/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned another fundamental pasuk about how the pesi makes decisions. Since we had a smaller crowd than usual, we were able to proceed through our analysis q...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:13 - Scorned Things and Revered Mitzvos בָּז לְדָבָר יֵחָבֶל לוֹ, וִירֵא מִצְוָה הוּא יְשֻׁלָּם: Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/19/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that seemed all over the place at first glance. What followed was one of the smoothest Mishlei analyses in memory: three of...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:17 - When Deliberate Thinkers Are Hated   קְצַר אַפַּיִם יַעֲשֶׂה אִוֶּלֶת וְאִישׁ מְזִמּוֹת יִשָּׂנֵא: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (2/7/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a perplexing pasuk which seemed to issue a warning of a negative consequence for a positive Mishleic archetype. We came up with sever...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:12 - Since When is Taavah is a Tree of Life?! תּוֹחֶלֶת מְמֻשָּׁכָה מַחֲלָה לֵב, וְעֵץ חַיִּים תַּאֲוָה בָאָה: Length: 1 hour 22 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (2/5/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that, on the surface, seems to advocate the pursuit of תאוה (desire, lust, instinctual pleasure) and goes so fa...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:11 - How to Get Money, Middos, and Wisdom FAST! ... Well, Slow הוֹן מֵהֶבֶל יִמְעָט, וְקֹבֵץ עַל יָד יַרְבֶּה: Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (1/29/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that looks super simple and super cliche ... not just Mishlei cliché, but CLICHÉ cliché. Nevertheless, I am pl...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:10 - The Secret to Teamwork, Leadership, and Communication רַק בְּזָדוֹן יִתֵּן מַצָּה וְאֶת נוֹעָצִים חׇכְמָה: Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (1/22/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk I had never learned before. The syntax of this pasuk was somewhat odd, as was the juxtaposition of seemingly...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:9 - What Type of Light Does YOUR Soul Make? אוֹר צַדִּיקִים יִשְׂמָח, וְנֵר רְשָׁעִים יִדְעָךְ: Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (1/15/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk which looked really easy and turned out to be super difficult! Unlike most of our Monday Night Mishlei shiurim, when we typic...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:15 - The Pesi and the Arum (Part 2)   פֶּתִי יַאֲמִין לְכׇל דָּבָר, וְעָרוּם יָבִין לַאֲשֻׁרוֹ: Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (1/10/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing yesterday's (MANY) questions and two approaches. We then learned a bunch of meforshim and gained a bunch of new insights int...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:15 - The Pesi and the Arum (Part 1)   פֶּתִי יַאֲמִין לְכׇל דָּבָר, וְעָרוּם יָבִין לַאֲשֻׁרוֹ: Length: 44 minutes Synopsis: This morning (1/9/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned the quintessential pasuk about the pesi and the arum. It's always a unique challenge to learn pesukim which define the classic Mishleic...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:8 - Those Poor People Who Don't Listen to Rebuke כֹּפֶר נֶפֶשׁ אִישׁ עׇשְׁרוֹ וְרָשׁ לֹא שָׁמַע גְּעָרָה: Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (1/8/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk which seemed quite difficult to understand on the surface - especially because it seemed to criticize poor peop...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:14 - The Hazard of the Soog Lev (Part 2)   מִדְּרָכָיו יִשְׂבַּע סוּג לֵב וּמֵעָלָיו אִישׁ טוֹב Length: 44 minutes Synopsis: This morning (1/4/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we reviewed yesterday's ideas, then learned two amazing and practical interpretations from the Metzudas David and the Rabbeinu Yonah. I was particu...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:14 - The Hazard of the Soog Lev (Part 1)   מִדְּרָכָיו יִשְׂבַּע סוּג לֵב וּמֵעָלָיו אִישׁ טוֹב Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (1/3/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began working on a pasuk that is so ambiguously worded that we were forced to contend with SIX different translations! Despite that obstacle, we were...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:7 - Thirteen Ways to Make Yourself Rich or Poor יֵשׁ מִתְעַשֵּׁר וְאֵין כֹּל, מִתְרוֹשֵׁשׁ וְהוֹן רָב: Length: 1 hour 43 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (1/1/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, I predicted that our pasuk would be fairly easy to learn and that we'd get lots of ideas. Looks like I was right! By my count, we cam...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:13 - When Laughter Ends in Sadness (Part 2)   גַּם בִּשְׂחֹק יִכְאַב לֵב וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ שִׂמְחָה תוּגָה Length: 43 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/21/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing yesterday's pasuk and ideas, then we consulted the meforshim. Although we were able to get some nice insights from a...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:13 - How to Avoid the Paths of Death (Part 1)   גַּם בִּשְׂחֹק יִכְאַב לֵב וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ שִׂמְחָה תוּגָה Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/20/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we started learning a pasuk which is clearly connected to the pasuk we learned last week (12/14/23), but we decided to analyze it on its own...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:6 - Keep Tam and Carry On צְדָקָה תִּצֹּר תׇּם דָּרֶךְ וְרִשְׁעָה תְּסַלֵּף חַטָּאת Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (12/19/23), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we analyzed a pasuk which looked like it was going to be really difficult, since the translation was really messy. Turns out, we came up with several overl...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:12 - How to Avoid the Paths of Death   יֵשׁ דֶּרֶךְ יָשָׁר לִפְנֵי אִישׁ וְאַחֲרִיתָהּ דַּרְכֵי מָוֶת: Length: 48 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/14/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we were able to analyze a seemingly obvious pasuk and come up with MANY different ideas, all in a single day! This one has far-reaching applica...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:5 - The Tzadik's Attitude Towards Falsehood דְּבַר שֶׁקֶר יִשְׂנָא צַדִּיק, וְרָשָׁע יַבְאִישׁ וְיַחְפִּיר: Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (12/11/23), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we skipped the next pasuk we were slated to do (13:4) because I gave shiur on it back in June 2022. Instead, we learned the ne...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:11 - Self-Destructive Houses and Self-Perpetuating Tents (Part 2)   בֵּית רְשָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵד, וְאֹהֶל יְשָׁרִים יַפְרִיחַ: Length: 48 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/7/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we reviewed the ideas from yesterday, supporting some of them from the meforshim. I then shared my own original interpretat...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:11 - Self-Destructive Houses and Self-Perpetuating Tents (Part 1)   בֵּית רְשָׁעִים יִשָּׁמֵד, וְאֹהֶל יְשָׁרִים יַפְרִיחַ: Length: 44 minutes Synopsis: This morning (12/6/23), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning a pasuk which seems to be VERY obvious, but like most seemingly obvious pesukim, our questions led us to...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:3 - Lips of Self-Destruction נֹצֵר פִּיו שֹׁמֵר נַפְשׁוֹ, פֹּשֵׂק שְׂפָתָיו מְחִתָּה לוֹ: Length: 1 hour 22 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (12/4/23), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned another pasuk about speech. I suspected this one would be easier than last week's, and it was! We came up with two approaches of our o...