Yaakov flees for his life, builds his family and business, and begins to experience considerable success - all while he is dreaming of angels...

Yitzchak and Rivka find their voices, try to find a space to live, and look to find their future.

Sarah passes and Avraham negotiates for a gravesight. Eleizer seeks out a wife for Yitzchok (66 verse narrative!) and returns succesfully. Avrham remarries, dies as does Yishmael.

Rabbi Shaffer of PJC (pikesvillejewish.com) offers a brief summary of the Parsha, aliya by aliya, peppered with insights.

In this final episode Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Heller discuss some of the most important take-aways from chapter 5 of Avot

This will be a space for us, guided by a guest scholar, to study together the teachings of Rabbinic wisdom, recorded in the book of Pirkei Avot, and to explore how the wisdom of Rabbis living two millennia ago continues to shape Jewish life and ideas until today.

Rabbi Zev Goldberg is the Senior Rabbi of the Young Israel of Ft. Lee, in northern New Jersey, is the VP of the now famous RCBC, who set the tone for rabbinic response to the COVID crisis.

Rabbi Gershon Albert is the Senior Rabbi of Beth Jacob, in Oakland, California, beloved by his congregants and colleagues, and deeply insightfu

Perek on a Pod is a space for us, along with a guest scholar, to study together the teachings of Rabbinic wisdom, recorded in the book of Pirkei Avot, and to explore how the wisdom of Rabbis living two millennia ago continues to shape Jewish life and ideas until today..

Each week Rabbi Yechiel Shaffer, accompanied by a guest scholar, will be exploring the ancient lessons of Rabbinic Sages, taught through the Jewish text of Pirkei Avot. Though these Rabbis lived millennia ago, we will discover together that their teachings, and insights are profoundly relevant to today.