Q:Why don’t we invite people to a bris milah, if we invite them to other simchas like a wedding, a pidyon haben and so on?
Tag: Avraham Avinu
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rivka, Our Model
Q:If the Torah is supposed to be teaching us lessons for all time, what do we learn from the encounter between Rivka and Eliezer? What I mean is that she appears to be doing everything that we here wouldn’t want our daughters to do. For example, first she talks to Eliezer, who’s a stranger – so it’s a young…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Akeidas Yitzchok
Q: Why did Avraham pray for Sedom but not for his son Yitzchok by the akeidah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Avraham Avinu and the Chofetz Chaim
Q:How does the greatness of the Chofetz Chaim compare to the greatness of the forefathers?
Rav Avigdor Miller on What are Friends For
Q:Does one need to have friends or does a wife suffice?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Marrying a Gi’yores
Q:Based on what the Rav spoke about tonight, about how Avraham Avinu was careful to take a wife for Yitzchok only from his family and not from any of the converts he had made, would the Rav say that it’s proper to avoid being mishadeich with a gi’yores?
Rav Avigdor Miller: Random Q&A’s
Q: How would a bochur today go about acquiring the amount of secular knowledge that you have?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Greatest Woman Ever
Q: The Rabbi said tonight that he believes that Moshe Rabeinu was the greatest man who ever lived. Who was the greatest woman who ever lived? And why?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Friends and Cronies
Q: Does one need to have friends or does a wife suffice?
Rav Avigdor Miller on the First Brocha of Shmone Esrei
Q: The halacha is that if one has kavanah during the first bracha of Shemonah Esrei but is sleeping through the rest of davening he’s yotzei. But if he has kavanah by all the brachos but sleeps through the bracha of Avos then he’s not yotzei. What’s so special about this first bracha?