Q:What could we learn from the hurricane that was supposed to come today? {this question was referencing either Hurricane Gordon or Hurricane Helene of late September 2000}
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Additional Shabbos Soul
Q:Rashi in Beitzah (16a) explains that the purpose of the neshama yiseirah, the additional soul that Jew gets on Shabbos, is so that a person should be able to eat more on Shabbos. I think that’s a very strange reason to get an additional soul.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Persuasions of the Yetzer Hora
Q:How can you say that world is tov me’od, that it’s a very good world and we should be busy thanking Hashem, when every day we hear of young people dying and leaving over young yesomim and yesomos?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Being Mikareiv Your Professor
Q:How can I be mekarev a sincere college professor who is my physics teacher?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Teshuva and Old Friends
Q:A ba’al teshuva or even someone who is trying to better his ways and do teshuva, should he continue to associate with his non-religious or less religious friends or should he drop them and risk insulting them?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pre-Rosh Hashanah Resolutions
Q: Every year, before Rosh Hashana comes along, I make kabolos, resolutions, about improving myself in various areas of my service of Hashem. But here I am a week before another Rosh Hashanah, the same schlepper I’ve always been.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Selichos
Q:What is Selichos all about?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rav Miller’s Davening
Q: Why do you daven without any big noises and without any shaking?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Preventing the Sufferings of Moshiach
Q:The gemara says that anyone who fulfills the mitzvah of eating three meals on Shabbos is spared from three sufferings, the sufferings of moshiach, the suffering of the judgement of Gehinom, and the milchemes Gog u’Mogog. How does eating on Shabbos come instead of the chevlei moshiach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shootings in America
Q:What should our reaction be to the recent shootings across America including the killing of a Jew?