My Personal Journey, Part 2 | Avot with the Chief

This episode is the next stage of my personal journey to discover the soul of Pirkei Avot. It is a search for what lies at the heart of the human being, and what Pirkei Avot empowers us to become. In the previous episode, I shared a discovery that had taken me years to reach. I thought I had finally discovered the central idea of Pirkei Avot. I assumed, at that point, that the journey was almost over. Then I realized that sometimes a breakthrough is not the end of a journey, but the beginning of one. In pursuit of a deeper understanding, I opened the Rambam - Maimonides - who wrote an eight-chapter introduction to Pirkei Avot. An introduction that is longer than the book itself. If anyone could confirm what I had found and show me what it meant, it was this great sage. Instead, the mystery deepened. KEY QUESTIONS: · If you stripped away everything you do - every obligation, every role, every action - what would be left? What are you, underneath all of that? · The Rambam says we have free choice not just over our actions but over our character and intellect. What does it actually mean to choose who you are? · What is the difference between a person who does good things a