The first paragraph of Pirkei Avot does not say what people think it says The first paragraph of Pirkei Avot, The Ethics of the Fathers, states: Moses received Torah from Sinai And [...]
Sage Advice Pirkei Avot By Irving (Yitz) Greenberg Maggid Books, 2016, 338 pages If a publisher was searching for a translator and commentator of the famed book of moral teachings called Pirkei Avot in Hebrew and Ethics of the Fathers in English, meaning traditional Jewish moral ideas, the publisher would find no one [...]
The Koren Pirkei Avot Translation by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Commentary by Rabbi Marc D. Angel Koren Publishers, 2015, 175 pages Jews and non-Jews have recognized the practical wisdom of many of the sayings in Pirkei Avot, “The Ethics of the Fathers,” and many Jews can quote its teachings from memory. Jews considered [...]
