Q: How can we come to realize that Hashem is our father?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Real Teshuva
Q:In some seforim they make it sound like doing teshuva is not so hard. It’s a process, but it’s not so hard. But in other seforim it says that it’s a big avodah of changing who you are completely. What’s the truth?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Impeachment and Fake News
Q:Did you change your mind about President Nixon now that it has been proven that he cheated on his income taxes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rosh Hashana and Parnasa
Q:If on Rosh Hashanah, Hakodosh Boruch Hu decrees the parnasa for the upcoming year for every person, why do I have to go out and work hard to make a living?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Wishing the Am Yisroel a K’siva V’Chasima Tova
Q:Why do we wish people a ksiva v’chasima tova and a gmar chasima tova? Doesn’t the judgement of Hashem on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur go according to your deeds? What’s a bracha going to help? A:Absolutely a man is judged according to his deeds. But tefillah helps. So you ask, why does your tefillah help? If you’re judged according to your deeds, why…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Recognizing the King
Q: If Rosh Hashana is the Yom Hadin, the day that Hashem is judging us, shouldn’t we spend the whole day saying vidui and confessing our sins?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rosh Hashana Prep
Q:Can the Rav give us some specific advice to work on in order to be zoicheh ba’din next week?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Ten Minutes to Make You Great
Q:The Rav said tonight that we should get busy before Rosh Hashanah remembering all the good that Hashem has given us since last Rosh Hashanah. But don’t we have to spend the time we have left thinking about our sins and our behavior over the past year and making resolutions for improving this coming year?
Rav Avigdor Miller on How to Read the Tochacha
Q: Why do we read the tochacha at such a rapid pace and so quietly? Wouldn’t it be more effective if we read it slowly and with more emphasis?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Selichos
Q:In Selichos when we say מכניסי רחמים and מלאכי רחמים. Are we praying to angels? Are we asking them for help?