The Mishlei Podcast
My name is Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss, and this is the hub for all of my shiurim (classes) on Sefer Mishlei, a.k.a. The Book of Proverbs! Generally speaking we will follow the approach to Mishlei outlined by Saadia Gaon who views Mishlei as a guide for intelligent decision-making in everyday life with the goal of maximizing long-term pleasure and minimizing long-term pain. Each shiur will typically focus on one pasuk (verse), which we will attempt to analyze on our own before turning to the meforshim (commentators). If you have any questions feel free to email me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail. Thanks for listening!
Episodes
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Mishlei 16:21 - How to Become a Navon
מַשְׂכִּיל עַל דָּבָר יִמְצָא טוֹב, וּבוֹטֵחַ בַּי"י אַשְׁרָיו:
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (1/13/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, learned a pasuk that was both syntactically awkward and somewhat of a non sequitur. Despite only having a few people in shiur, we managed to come up wit...
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Mishlei 15:14 - Seeking Knowledge vs. Snacking on Foolishness (Part 2)
לֵב נָבוֹן יְבַקֶּשׁ דָּעַת [וּפִי] (ופני) כְסִילִים יִרְעֶה אִוֶּלֶת:
Length: 45 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (1/9/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing the excellent approaches people came up with yesterday, supplying examples which clarified and refined them....
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Mishlei 15:14 - Seeking Knowledge vs. Snacking on Foolishness (Part 1)
לֵב נָבוֹן יְבַקֶּשׁ דָּעַת [וּפִי] (ופני) כְסִילִים יִרְעֶה אִוֶּלֶת:
Length: 45 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (1/8/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that seemed obvious in its first half and ... strange and ambiguous in its second half. We came up with some ni...
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Mishlei 16:20 - The Relationship Between Intelligent Planning and Bitachon (Trust in Hashem)
מַשְׂכִּיל עַל דָּבָר יִמְצָא טוֹב, וּבוֹטֵחַ בַּי"י אַשְׁרָיו:
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (1/6/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we were down to a skeleton crew - with nearly all of our regulars MIA - but we managed to have a g...
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Mishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 2)
לֵב שָׂמֵחַ יֵיטִב פָּנִים, וּבְעַצְּבַת לֵב רוּחַ נְכֵאָה:
Length: 30 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (1/2/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we did a quick review of yesterday's ideas, then - in an unexpected plot twist - learned RASHI! This led to a discussion of what it means to have a relatio...
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Mishlei 15:13 - Happy Faces and Sad Hearts (Part 1)
לֵב שָׂמֵחַ יֵיטִב פָּנִים, וּבְעַצְּבַת לֵב רוּחַ נְכֵאָה:
Length: 30 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (1/1/25), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we started learning a pasuk which seemed obvious but also didn't indicate any clear context for its application. Despite having a shorter amount of time fo...
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Mishlei 15:12 - The Leitz's Lack of Love for Rebuke (Part 2)
לֹא יֶאֱהַב לֵץ הוֹכֵחַ לוֹ, אֶל חֲכָמִים לֹא יֵלֵךְ:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/19/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing yesterday's ideas and coming up with some new approaches. We then delved into the Malbim's commentary here and on the ...
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Mishlei 15:12 - The Leitz's Lack of Love for Rebuke (Part 1)
לֹא יֶאֱהַב לֵץ הוֹכֵחַ לוֹ, אֶל חֲכָמִים לֹא יֵלֵךְ:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/18/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning what looked like a VERY obvious pasuk about a familiar Mishleic archetype. Thankfully, the strange litotes (look it up!) in the firs...
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Mishlei 16:19 - The Cost of Doing Business with the Haughty
טוֹב שְׁפַל רוּחַ אֶת [עֲנָוִים] (עניים) מֵחַלֵּק שָׁלָל אֶת גֵּאִים
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (12/16/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the sequel to last week's pasuk about arrogance. Instead of warning about BEING haughty, this one warned about as...
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Mishlei 15:11 - The Grave, Destruction, and Kal va'Chomer Human Hearts (Part 2)
שְׁאוֹל וַאֲבַדּוֹן נֶגֶד י"י אַף כִּי לִבּוֹת בְּנֵי אָדָם:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/12/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began by reviewing and refining some of yesterday's approaches. We then learned three approaches from the mefor...
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Mishlei 15:11 - The Grave, Destruction, and Kal va'Chomer Human Hearts (Part 1)
שְׁאוֹל וַאֲבַדּוֹן נֶגֶד י"י אַף כִּי לִבּוֹת בְּנֵי אָדָם:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/11/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we learned a strange pasuk which looks like it belongs in Iyov or Tehilim rather than in Mishlei. We came up with a few...
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Mishlei 16:18 - Pride Goeth Before Breaking and Stumbling
לִפְנֵי שֶׁבֶר גָּאוֹן, וְלִפְנֵי כִשָּׁלוֹן גֹּבַהּ רוּחַ:
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (12/9/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned what is probably one of the most oft-quoted well, oft-paraphrased) pesukim in the world. The main thrust was obvious enough. The t...
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Mishlei 15:10 - Bad Mussar (Part 2)
מוּסָר רָע לְעֹזֵב אֹרַח שׂוֹנֵא תוֹכַחַת יָמוּת:
Length: 47 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/5/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we continued learning yesterday's pasuk and encountered a surprising level of difficulty. Metzudas David didn't give us much to work with. Rabbeinu Yonah was clear, but we cou...
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Mishlei 15:10 - Bad Mussar (Part 1)
מוּסָר רָע לְעֹזֵב אֹרַח שׂוֹנֵא תוֹכַחַת יָמוּת:
Length: 47 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (12/4/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we began learning an unusually difficult-to-translate pasuk. It's not uncommon for us to have multiple translations for a given pasuk, but we had SEVEN different ways to translate ...
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Mishlei 16:17 - Mesilas Yesharim According to Mishlei
מְסִלַּת יְשָׁרִים סוּר מֵרָע שֹׁמֵר נַפְשׁוֹ נֹצֵר דַּרְכּוֹ:
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (12/2/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the pasuk from which the title of the classic mussar work "Mesilas Yesharim" is derived. We had a surprisingly hard time ...
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Mishlei 15:9 - Hashem's Love and Loathing in Mishlei (Part 2)
תּוֹעֲבַת י"י דֶּרֶךְ רָשָׁע וּמְרַדֵּף צְדָקָה יֶאֱהָב:
Length: 47 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (11/28/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we set out to clarify and develop the different approaches we came up with yesterday. I THOUGHT we were going to learn the meforshim, but the...
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Mishlei 15:9 - Hashem's Love and Loathing in Mishlei (Part 1)
תּוֹעֲבַת י"י דֶּרֶךְ רָשָׁע וּמְרַדֵּף צְדָקָה יֶאֱהָב:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (11/27/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we started learning a pasuk which appears to be connected to the previous one, which also speaks of an "abomination of Hashem," but...
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Mishlei 16:16 - Forget Gold and Silver; Invest in Chochmah and Binah
קְנֹה חׇכְמָה מַה טּוֹב מֵחָרוּץ, וּקְנוֹת בִּינָה נִבְחָר מִכָּסֶף:
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (11/25/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned a pasuk that - unlike the last six pesukim - was NOT about kings! At least, not according to us. We attempted...
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Mishlei 16:15 - The Nature of the King's Favor
בְּאוֹר פְּנֵי מֶלֶךְ חַיִּים, וּרְצוֹנוֹ כְּעָב מַלְקוֹשׁ:
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
Synopsis: This evening (11/18/24), in our Monday Night Mishlei shiur, we learned the last pasuk in the local cluster of pesukim about kings. Once again, I was worried that we would have difficulty seeing past the cli...
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Mishlei 15:8 - Tefilah and Korbanos in Mishlei?! (Part 2)
זֶבַח רְשָׁעִים תּוֹעֲבַת י"י וּתְפִלַּת יְשָׁרִים רְצוֹנוֹ:
Length: 46 minutes
Synopsis: This morning (11/14/24), in our morning Mishlei shiur, we turned to the meforshim. We encountered some nice ideas, but also found that their approaches overlapped to the extent that it was difficult to...
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