Our section on Pirkei Avot, "Ethics of the Fathers," went live this past week. The confluence of ethics and religion is an intriguing topic—are the two inherently intertwined, or are they independent domains? Judaism has long maintained that one cannot thrive without the other. See below for links to this section, and discover for yourself why “If there is no Torah, there is no common decency; if there is no common decency, there is no Torah” (Ethics 3:17).
Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers
About Ethics of our Fathers
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
The Translated Text