The Mishlei Podcast

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...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:5 - Hashem Hates Haughty Hearts תּוֹעֲבַת י"י כׇּל גְּבַהּ לֵב יָד לְיָד לֹא יִנָּקֶה: Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/29/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we analyzed a pasuk that condemned haughtiness in the harshest terms and followed it up with a perplexing statement whose meaning was not readi...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:4 - The Rasha's Purpose כֹּל פָּעַל י"י לַמַּעֲנֵהוּ, וְגַם רָשָׁע לְיוֹם רָעָה: Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/15/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we - another small summer crew - analyzed an anomalous pasuk about (wait for it) the purpose of the universe (maybe?) and the purpose of the ras...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:3 - How to Achieve Your Goal [to Hashem All Your Actions] גֹּל אֶל י"י מַעֲשֶׂיךָ וְיִכֹּנוּ מַחְשְׁבֹתֶיךָ: Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/8/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we - a small crew this week! - analyzed what appeared to be an extremely fundamental pasuk. Turns out, it was! We ended up...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 16:2 - [The Inability to] Know Thyself כׇּל דַּרְכֵי אִישׁ זַךְ בְּעֵינָיו וְתֹכֵן רוּחוֹת י"י: Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Synopsis: This evening (7/1/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we began a new perek! This pasuk seemed intuitive on the surface, but we ended up with a bunch of related yet distinct groundbreaking idea...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:25 - How Tzadikim and Resha'im Eat צַדִּיק אֹכֵל לְשֹׂבַע נַפְשׁוֹ, וּבֶטֶן רְשָׁעִים תֶּחְסָר: Length: 1 hour 36 minutes Synopsis: This evening (6/24/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the final pasuk in Chapter 13. This pasuk was incredibly easy to translate, but yielded far more questions than we expected...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:35 - How to Be a Successful Subordinate (Part 2) רְצוֹן מֶלֶךְ לְעֶבֶד מַשְׂכִּיל, וְעֶבְרָתוֹ תִּהְיֶה מֵבִישׁ: Length: 48 minutes Synopsis: This morning (6/20/24), in our last morning Mishlei shiur of the 2023-2024 season, we continued learning the last pasuk in Chapter 14. After reviewing yesterday's ideas, we then learn...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:35 - How to Be a Successful Subordinate (Part 1) רְצוֹן מֶלֶךְ לְעֶבֶד מַשְׂכִּיל, וְעֶבְרָתוֹ תִּהְיֶה מֵבִישׁ: Length: 48 minutes Synopsis: This morning (6/19/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning the last pasuk in Chapter 14. We developed one really nice idea which emerged organically from the words in the pasu...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:24 - Spare the Rod, Hate the Child חוֹשֵׂךְ שִׁבְטוֹ שׂוֹנֵא בְנוֹ, וְאֹהֲבוֹ שִׁחֲרוֹ מוּסָר: Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (6/17/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we analyzed what LOOKED like it was going to be an easy pasuk, but it turned out to be quick tricky. (Perhaps we were misled by the intuitiveness...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:34 - Mishlei on National Tzedakah and Chesed (Part 2) צְדָקָה תְרוֹמֵם גּוֹי וְחֶסֶד לְאֻמִּים חַטָּאת: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (6/6/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing and refining yesterday's approaches. We then spent the rest of shiur learning the main idea underlying the Ri Nachmia...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:34 - Mishlei on National Tzedakah and Chesed (Part 1) צְדָקָה תְרוֹמֵם גּוֹי וְחֶסֶד לְאֻמִּים חַטָּאת: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (6/5/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk about CHESED! Why is this such a big deal? Because FUN FACT: the term "tzedakah," "tzedek," and "tza...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 13:23 - Poor Victims of Injustice or Mishleic Fools? רׇב אֹכֶל נִיר רָאשִׁים וְיֵשׁ נִסְפֶּה בְּלֹא מִשְׁפָּט: Length: 1 hour 38 minutes Synopsis: Tonight (6/3/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we analyzed what LOOKED like it was going to be the most difficult pasuk we've learned all year. The questions kept mounting, an...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:33 - How the Navon and the Ksil Relate to Chochmah (Part 2) בְּלֵב נָבוֹן תָּנוּחַ חׇכְמָה, וּבְקֶרֶב כְּסִילִים תִּוָּדֵעַ: Length: 46 minutes Synopsis: This morning (5/30/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, turned out to be one of the most amazing days of Mishlei learning in recent memory! We spent the first half hour refining...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:33 - How the Navon and the Ksil Relate to Chochmah (Part 1) בְּלֵב נָבוֹן תָּנוּחַ חׇכְמָה, וּבְקֶרֶב כְּסִילִים תִּוָּדֵעַ: Length: 45 minutes Synopsis: This morning (5/29/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began a pasuk filled with "Mishleic knowledge terminology": chochmah, navon, ksil, yediah. I thought we'...

Have any questions, insights, or feedback? Send me a text! Mishlei 14:32 - How the Tzadik and Rasha Handle Adversity (Part 2) בְּרָעָתוֹ יִדָּחֶה רָשָׁע, וְחֹסֶה בְמוֹתוֹ צַדִּיק: Length: 47 minutes Synopsis: This morning (5/23/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we continued analyzing yesterday's pasuk. You know the expression, "you win some, you lose some"? Well, that doesn't...