<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>-is the pirkei avot considered a mishna?? (and thus possibly binding as halacha???</span></div><div><span>or is it just considered as possibly from the mishnaic era, and just good advice??</span></div><div><span>also,</span></div><div><span>when the mishna in avot says that one shouldn't judge one's chaver (whatever a cha-</span></div><div><span>ver definition is) until one reaches or "gets to his place" does it mean <br></span></div><div><span>1. can we EVER really know someone and/or their circumstances??? ...since we are<br></span></div><div><span>all different; and therefore should judge l'kaf schut; and 2:. when the gemarra (judges,</span></div><div><span>like reuben or david hamelech [l'kav schut??] did "they" get to their place?? <br></span></div><div><span>(eg, did Hashem throught ruach hakodesh, take
them, or show them that in fact <br></span></div><div><span>reuven did not move his fathers' bed, and/or that dovid did not sin with batsheva, etc, ???</span></div><div><span>--> or do we hold that when the amoraim were judging dovid hamelech, etc, they were <br></span></div><div><span>not judging them as "chavercha??"</span></div><div><span>hb</span></div></div></body></html>