The Mishlei Podcast

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...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:9 - Man Plans and Hashem ... Prepares Footsteps? לֵב אָדָם יְחַשֵּׁב דַּרְכּוֹ וַי"י יָכִין צַעֲדוֹ: Length: 1 hour 39 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/23/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we ended up having a masterclass on how to avoid learning cliché ideas from pesukim that seem like clichés. I was concerned this...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:3 - Hashem's Super-Vision (Part 2) בְּכׇל מָקוֹם עֵינֵי י"י צֹפוֹת רָעִים וְטוֹבִים: Length: 49 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/19/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by raising a problem we missed yesterday which many of the meforshim grapple with. I shared my own approach to the pasuk in response to that pr...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:3 - Hashem's Super-Vision (Part 1) בְּכׇל מָקוֹם עֵינֵי י"י צֹפוֹת רָעִים וְטוֹבִים: Length: 49 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/18/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning a pasuk which sounds VERY non-Mishleic, and seems to be more fitting for Tehilim, Koheles, or Iyov. We came up with far more questions...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:8 - The Superiority of Small-Scale Tzedakah טוֹב מְעַט בִּצְדָקָה, מֵרֹב תְּבוּאוֹת בְּלֹא מִשְׁפָּט: Length: 1 hour 39 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/16/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we took up concise pasuk about tzedakah and mishpat - and boy did we come up with interpretations: thirteen in all! There was some ov...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:2 - The Knowledge-Enhancing Speech of Chachamim and the Babbling of Fools (Part 2) לְשׁוֹן חֲכָמִים תֵּיטִיב דָּעַת וּפִי כְסִילִים יַבִּיעַ אִוֶּלֶת: Length: 44 minutes Synopsis: This past Friday morning (9/14/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur (which I forgot to post until now), we refined our analysis of the pasuk from the day...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:2 - The Knowledge-Enhancing Speech of Chachamim and the Babbling of Fools (Part 1) לְשׁוֹן חֲכָמִים תֵּיטִיב דָּעַת וּפִי כְסִילִים יַבִּיעַ אִוֶּלֶת: Length: 49 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/12/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began analyzing a "classic" style Mishlei pasuk about the wise, the foolish, and th...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:7 - How to Recruit Hashem to Make Your Enemies Be At Peace With You בִּרְצוֹת י"י דַּרְכֵי אִישׁ, גַּם אוֹיְבָיו יַשְׁלִם אִתּוֹ: Length: 1 hour 33 minutes Synopsis: This evening (9/9/24), in our first Monday Night Mishlei shiur of the 2024-2025 season, we took up a Mishlei pasuk about how to make peace with our enemies. Th...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:1 - Responding to Wrath (Part 2) מַעֲנֶה רַּךְ יָשִׁיב חֵמָה, וּדְבַר עֶצֶב יַעֲלֶה אָף: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/5/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we reviewed what we did yesterday and developed a unified approach based on Metzudas David and Aristotle. We emerged with a VERY practical idea for how to resp...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 15:1 - Responding to Wrath (Part 1) מַעֲנֶה רַּךְ יָשִׁיב חֵמָה, וּדְבַר עֶצֶב יַעֲלֶה אָף: Length: 29 minutes Synopsis: This morning (9/4/24), in our first morning Mishlei shiur of the 2024-2025 season, we began the 15th chapter. In this first truncated learnings session (on account of Rosh Chodesh davening) we raised a ton of que...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:6 - Attaining Atonement the Mishleic Way בְּחֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת יְכֻפַּר עָוֺן וּבְיִרְאַת י"י סוּר מֵרָע: Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Synopsis: This evening (8/5/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur before a month-long hiatus, we took up a Mishlei pasuk on what didn't sound like a Mishleic topic: kaparas avon (atoning for i...