Perek 3, Mishna 16-19
Pirkei Avos / Part I

The sayings of the great Rabbi Akiva are the topic of this lecture in which we come to understand such all-embracing concepts as halachic fences and God's love for the Jewish people. Rabbi Akiva then ups the ante with even more difficult philosophical questions: the apparent contradiction between free will and God's foreknowledge and the nagging problem of why righteous people suffer.