Pirkei Avos in Real Life

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman

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How the teachings of Pirkei Avos apply in daily life.

Episode Date
The Promise of Mishna 4:9: External Circumstances vs. Internal Transformation
Oct 13, 2026
The Bigger Challenge: Poverty or Wealth?
Oct 06, 2026
The Hazards of Solitary Judgment & Imposing One's Will
Sep 22, 2026
Humility And Hesitation Before Rendering Legal Or Spiritual Verdicts
Sep 15, 2026
Honoring Torah brings true honor; cheapening it brings public disgrace.
Sep 08, 2026
Honoring the Torah: Respect, Conduct, and Dignity
Sep 01, 2026
Don't Dig with an Axe
Aug 25, 2026
Honor, Gain, and Proper Intentions (Rabi Tzadok)
Aug 18, 2026
Fulfillment in Learning and Teaching
Aug 11, 2026
Intent and Motive in Learning
Aug 04, 2026
Desecration of Hashem's Name in Private
Jul 28, 2026
Exceeding in Humility (Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh)
Jul 21, 2026
Everyone, Everything Has A Place Or a Time
Jul 14, 2026
The Time and the Place
Jul 07, 2026
The Momentum of Actions
Jun 30, 2026
The Internalized Life: Personal Responsibility in Character and Action
Jun 23, 2026
The Internalized Life: Personal Responsibility in Character and Action
Jun 16, 2026
Counter-Intuitive Definitions of Success
Jun 09, 2026
Changing the Definitions of Success: Internalizing Wisdom, Strength, and Wealth
Jun 02, 2026
Who is Wise, Who is Strong
May 26, 2026
Humility and True Worth
May 19, 2026
Branches and Roots, Appetizers and Mains, Intro to Defining Success
May 12, 2026
Essential Pairings and The French Revolution
May 05, 2026
The Human Condition and the Banquet
Apr 28, 2026
Divine Justice and Human Action
Apr 21, 2026
Everything is known. To whom?
Apr 14, 2026
Tzelem, Banim, Love and Responsibility
Mar 24, 2026
The Power of Recognition: Self-Worth and Responsibility
Mar 17, 2026
Tithes, Vows, Fences, and Silence
Mar 10, 2026
Fences for Kedusha
Feb 24, 2026
The Cognitive vs. The Spontaneous—Two Paths to Greeting Others
Feb 17, 2026
Navigating Relationships with Gracefully
Feb 10, 2026
Swift or Deliberate, Always Pleasant
Feb 03, 2026
Sanctity, Self-Worth, and the Human Role
Jan 27, 2026
Denying Kedusha on many levels - Nihilism?
Jan 25, 2026
Physical needs and Boundaries
Jan 13, 2026
Sleep, Wine, Childlike, Chill. Carefully
Jan 06, 2026
Pleasing Hashem and Others
Dec 30, 2025
What "pleases" Hashem k'viyachol?
Dec 23, 2025
Adding Purpose to Wisdom
Dec 21, 2025
The Purpose of Knowledge. Yiras Shamayim
Dec 10, 2025
Forgetting Can Endanger the Nefesh, How to Remember More
Dec 03, 2025
Forgetting Our Learning: Culpable or Not
Nov 26, 2025
Beauty in the world is not a contradiction to Torah, but...
Nov 18, 2025
Why Hashem did not distribute wealth equally
Nov 12, 2025
Two Motivations — Two Outcomes. The pleasant Yoke
Nov 04, 2025
The Need to be Needed
Oct 28, 2025
The Kotkzer on finding a Teacher. And, Good Stress!
Oct 21, 2025
Accepting Limitation and Responsibility
Sep 30, 2025
Alone at night or on the road. Danger?
Sep 16, 2025
Filet for the Soul and the Value of One, Two, and Three
Sep 09, 2025
Learning Together, Learning Alone, Tune in to Shechina
Sep 02, 2025
Who Governs Me?
Aug 26, 2025
You Are A Role Model! Din,then Cheshbon?
Aug 19, 2025
Akavya vs Rebbe? Look at Which 3 Things?
Aug 06, 2025
Why Did Rabbi Tarfon call Hashem "Baal HaBayis?"
Jul 29, 2025
What Lies Beyond Logic?
Jul 22, 2025
Six Degrees of Separation from Hashem and How to Overcome Them
Jul 15, 2025
The Value of Arrogance
Jul 08, 2025
It's hard to focus on Davening
Jul 01, 2025
For Heaven's Sake? and Imitation Isn't Always Sincere
Jun 24, 2025
What's In It FROM Me?
Jun 19, 2025
You CAN take it with you!
Jun 10, 2025
Shame and Honor
Jun 10, 2025
It's NOT Which is it? It's When and How for Each!
May 30, 2025
Mi ha-Ish ha-Chafetz Chaim? The question ends there.
May 30, 2025
Offering Praise: A Risk / Benefit Analysis
May 30, 2025
Why Learn Torah in Utero only to Forget at Birth?
May 30, 2025
Trapped by Ambiguity? Acceptance of Limitation
May 30, 2025
Chanoch l'Naar al pi darcho, or else!
May 30, 2025
What do you have to offer? What's stopping you from offering it?
May 30, 2025
Fear. Of Hashem. Of Shame. Of Failure
May 30, 2025
When I Get a Chance, I'll...
May 30, 2025
Don't Think You Are Set for Life, Either Way!
May 30, 2025
Nullifying someone else's will. Even Hashem's?
May 30, 2025
Our role in Zchus Avos and Emahos
May 30, 2025
The Angel that Makes Our Torah Real
May 30, 2025
Reach out and touch someone, carefully
May 30, 2025
What's in it FOR me? and Think vs Ponder
May 30, 2025
What's in it FROM me?
May 30, 2025
Should? Says who? and Be a naar
May 30, 2025
Why Do a Mitzvah?
May 28, 2025
How and When to do a Mitzvah
May 28, 2025
Risk Benefit Analysis. Who Matters?
May 28, 2025
How Tefilah Works
May 28, 2025
Too much silence
May 28, 2025
Silence, and When a CHAIT isn't a sin
May 28, 2025
Anger vs Angry Part 3, and, Love Your Money?
May 27, 2025
Anger vs Angry Part 1
May 26, 2025
Anger vs Angry Part 2
May 26, 2025