Paterfamilias: Decoding the Secrets of Mishnah Avot - episode 1

What is Mishnah?

Where did it come from, what is its purpose, and who wrote it?

In this introductory shiur we try to look at as a stand alone work and understand it on its own terms. We challenge some of the basic assumptions about Mishnah which may have been picked up in grade school, and begin to build an argument for the geopolitical motivations for compiling and canonizing this body of work.

Finally we begin to study the first Mishnah in (Pirkei) Avot and begin to wonder about the phrasing of the chain of tradition.

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