Q: What is the Torah view of women in the workplace nowadays when supporting a family is often difficult on only one income?
Author: Toras Avigdor
Rav Avigdor Miller on Watching Television L’sheim Shamayim
Q: If we would listen to you, and not watch television and not read the New York Times, then how could Orthodox Jews keep themselves informed of current events which might affect the Jewish community?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Marrying for Yichus
Q: How much emphasis should I put on yichus when choosing a shidduch?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Beards and Anti-semites
Q: Why is there such an importance affixed to having a beard? Why can’t a person be a good Jew even without a beard?
Parshas Ki Seitzei – Becoming Great Retroactively
פרשת כי תצא THE MITZVAH TO FORGET In Parshas Ki Seitzei, we learn about the mitzva of shikcha when Hashem tells us that we are forbidden to collect a forgotten bundle when we harvest our fields. כי תקצור קצירך בשדך ושכחת עומר בשדה לא תשוב לקחתו לגר ליתום ולאלמנה יהיה למען יברכך השם אלוקיך בכל…
The Easy Road to Teshuva – Tape #524
TAPE #524 The Easy Road to Teshuva WHEN THERE IS CAUSE FOR FEAR Dovid Hamelech said בימי רע למה אירא – “Of what should I be afraid in the days when there is what to fear? What should I be afraid of when there is cause to fear?” (Tehillim 49:6). So Dovid said that…
Mourning for Our Ancient Perfection – Tape #E-21
TAPE #E-21 Mourning for Our Ancient Perfection WHAT ARE WE MOURNING FOR? Yeshayah Hanavi declared, שמחו את ירושלים כל אוהביה וגילו בה, All you who loved Yerushalayim will rejoice with her, שישו אתה משוש כל המתאבלים עליה, all those who mourn for Yerushalayim will rejoice together in her happiness. (Yeshayah 66:10). So the Gemara makes…
Five Minutes a Day – Tape #E-159
TAPE #E-159 Five Minutes a Day Bruchim Haba’im, welcome everyone. We’re about to begin b’Ezras Hashem number E 159. In the Chovos Halevovos there’s a section called Shaar Cheshbon Hanefesh. The way the public understands Cheshbon Hanefesh is not the way the Chovos Halevovos understands it. The popular concept – which is a very…
Shavuos, Together at Sinai – Tape #E-12
TAPE #E-12 Shavuos Together at Sinai THE RAMBAM’S IGERES TEIMAN Bruchim ha’ba’im. Welcome everyone. We are about to begin b’ ezras Hashem number E – 12. And we cite from the Rambam in his Igeres Teiman, which is his famous proclamation, the one he made when there was a shmad in the land of…