Q: Why is it that the opponents of our people, like for example the Catholic Church, are in some cases still so strong today?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Empty Month
Q: Why is it that the month of Cheshvan doesn’t have any holidays in it or even any fast days?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chava’s Chumrah
Q:You spoke about the greatness of training ourselves to be prushim by making fences around the Torah laws; by adding on to the Torah and forbidding upon ourselves things that are actually permitted. But didn’t we learn that Chava was mistaken in telling the nachash that she was told not to touch the tree when really the command was only that they couldn’t eat from…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Income Redistribution
Q: I’m bothered by the fact that we find that some Tanaaim who were very wealthy, like Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya and Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurkenus and some were very poor like Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, and they all were together – they knew each other. So why didn’t the wealthy ones give money to the poor ones and…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Corrupted Italians
Q:How should we view the endorsement given to Cuomo (Mario Cuomo, father of current New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo) by Jewish personalities?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Appreciating the Rain
Q:How could we rid ourselves of the habit of not seeing the greatness of rain?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Isru Chag
Q:What’s this idea of Isru Chag; of celebrating Yom Tov on the day after Yom Tov?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Purpose of Chol Hamoed
Q: What is the purpose of Chol Hamoed? A:Chol Hamoed is meant to be an opportunity for people to think over what the Yom Tov is all about. On Yom Tov we’re very busy; we’re busy bringing korbanos and making seudos and sometimes we forget to think about the lessons we’re supposed to learn from the Yomtiv. And therefore Chol Hamoed…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Simchas Beis Hashoeivah
Q: What is the special happiness of the simchas beis hashoeiva?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shaking the Daled Minim
Q: What should we be thinking about when we’re shaking the lulav and esrog?