Author: Toras Avigdor
Rav Avigdor Miller on How to Fight Missionaries on Chanukah
Q:What preventive measure can we do now to avoid our children falling into the hands of missionaries when they grow up?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chanukah Gifts
Q:The evening of December 25th is the first night of Chanukah. Should Jews refrain from giving gifts that evening?
Parshas Mikeitz – Chanukah 3 – Pride of Israel
Parshas Mikeitz With Rav Avigdor Miller Pride of Israel Part I. Culture Shock The Story of Chanukah In Mesichta Shabbos (21b) the question is asked: מַאי חֲנוּכָּה – What’s Chanukah all about? And we all know the answer to that – it was יְוָנִים נִקְבְּצוּ עָלַי, the wicked Greeks gathered against us to destroy us….
Rav Avigdor Miller on Antiochus’s Benevolent Decrees
Q:The Rav said tonight that the suffering we endure from the goyim is a benefit to us. How could it be that we benefited from the decrees of Antiochus during the days of Chanukah if we weren’t allowed to keep our religion?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Miracle Left Out of Al Hanisim
Q:If the most important aspect of the Chanukah neis is the oil lasting for eight days and not the winning of the war, then why don’t we mention the miracle of the candles in al hanisim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Yoshkeh and Christianity
Q:The Rav said tonight that Yoshkeh was basically an observant Jew and that it was only the later Christians who created a new religion. But then why is Yoshkeh called a meisis in the gemara?