Q&A

Rav Avigdor Miller on Getting Out of Debt

Q: How does one cope with the stress of having chovos, debts?

Rav Avigdor Miller on Maintaining Life Support

Q: Today medical technology can virtually keep one organ alive while the rest of the body shuts down. In addition to praying, what instruction should we give when assigning healthcare proxy for a healthcare agent who will speak for us in the event we are, to take an extreme case, being given artificial nutrition, artificial hydration, on a respirator or maybe even braindead. What’s the Jewish view?

Rav Avigdor Miller on the Gifted Slave

Q: I’m bothered by the fact that we find that some Tana'im 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 make them wealthy too?

Rav Avigdor Miller on Free Will & Hashgacha Protis

Q: How would we reconcile hashgacha protis and free will?

Rav Avigdor Miller on Certified Yiras Shamayim

Q: How does one know if he has yiras shamayim?

Rav Avigdor Miller on Silly Prayers

Q: Earlier you quoted from the Mesillas Yesharim that when we daven for Moshiach and for the Binyan Beis Hamikdash, even though our tefilos may not cause it to come but still it’s a nachas ruach to Hashem when we ask and we get reward for that. Then why is there a halacha that a tefillas shav, a tefillah that’s said in vain, is forbidden?