Pirkei Avot
Studies in Pirkei Avot - Ethics of Our Fathers
The study of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers) welcomes us to a rich and colorful gallery of famous Talmudic Jewish sages. Pirkay Avos gives us a personal introduction to the rabbis of successive generations and their spiritual legacies. Instead of dealing only with standard Talmudic legal rulings and Halachic axioms, the focus here is on personal matters of character, ethical values, moral issues and relationships. Each Rabbi shares with us his personal advice and counsel, reflecting his own life experiences, and his individual formula to spiritual attainment. This purpose and direction of these essays on Pirkay Avot is to based on what we will call Talmudic Archaeology, exploring a sage's biography, geography and historic background to better appreciate his advice and counsel.