Q:
What should one think about on his birthday?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Bas Mitzvahs and Holy Women
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Why don’t we make a bas-mitzvah for a girl, the same way we make a bar-mitzvah for a boy?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Flirting With Fire
Q: What is the best way to be mikareiv, to draw close to yiddishkeit, an unmarried girl of thirty-five?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Speaking Hebrew
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Tonight the Rav stressed the ma’alah of speaking Yiddish. Is speaking Hebrew as big of a ma’alah as speaking Yiddish?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Onions and Potatoes
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Why did Hashem create onions? Who needs it?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Honorable Servitude
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I’m asking about what the Rav mentioned earlier, that if the Bnei Yisroel had listened to the advice of Yosef and remained separate from the Mitzri’yim, living only in Goshen, then all of the problems, the difficulties of avodah kasha, would not have happened. But didn’t Hashem already tell Avraham Avinu that his descendants would suffer through ועבדום ועינו אותם (Bereishis 15:13)? How do we reconcile that?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Talmid Chochom Speaks to the Horse
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If the Rav is always telling us that we have to subjugate ourselves to the Gedolim who have the da’as Torah that comes from learning, why do we ourselves have to bother learning Gemara in depth and become lamdanim?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Disrespectful Talmidim of Rabbi Akiva
Q: What does it mean that the talmidim of Rabbi Akiva were not נוהג כבוד זה לזה, that they didn’t treat each other with respect?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Role Of The Father In The Home
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What should the role of the father be in the home?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Everything
Q:
What can one do to fight the bad midah of ga’avah?