Q:The Rama says if you can’t drink wine you should go to sleep; what’s the p’shat?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Esther’s Perfect Character
Q:How did Esther manage to conceal her identity from people for so long? What did she say every time Achashveirosh asked her?
Rav Avigdor Miller on How to be a Purim Drunk
Q: What should be our attitude towards those who become shikur on Purim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Achashveirosh Permits Jewish Self Defense
Q:I want to ask a question about Purim. It says that Achashveirosh gave the Jews the right to defend themselves again. And I would like to know, what would have happened if he didn’t give this right? Wouldn’t they try to defend themselves anyway somehow?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Real Takeaway of Purim
Q: The Rav spoke tonight about the lesson of Purim being the internalizing of how much Hashem loves us and our responsibility to love Him and to love the Am Yisroel. But isn’t it possible to say that the Simchas Purim is because of קיימו וקיבלו, that the Jewish Nation accepted the Torah again after the…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Purim
Q: Yaakov Avinu dealt with Eisav by sending him gift in order to appease him. Why in the time of Purim didn’t we try to do our hishtadlus by trying to bribe Achashveirosh?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Moshe Rabeinu Fills His Days
Q: Is there any significance in the fact that our great teacher, Moshe Rabeinu, passed away on the same day that he was born?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Black-Hatter Makes a Kiddush Hashem
Q:The Rambam says it’s an ideal of kiddush Hashem, that a person should behave in such a way that people will say, “Look at that man! He learns Torah and look how well behaved he is.” So my question is, should he do it in order that people should see him and praise him?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Calling People Fools
Q: Sometimes we see in the gemara that the chachomim in Eretz Yisroel would refer to the Jews in Bavel as בבלאי טפשאי, those foolish Babylonians. How does that fit together with the idea that you’re not supposed to ridicule people?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rock and Roll and Opera
Q: Can listening continually to rock and roll music hurt a person?