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How would a bochur today go about acquiring the amount of secular knowledge that you have?
Tag: Avraham Avinu
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Greatest Woman Ever
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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?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Friends and Cronies
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Does one need to have friends or does a wife suffice?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on the First Brocha of Shmone Esrei
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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?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Human Sacrifice (March 1990)
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How could Hakodosh Boruch Hu ask Avrohom Avinu to sacrifice his son, Yitzchok? Isn’t that too extreme of a demand?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Marrying A Gi’yoris and Building the Am Yisroel
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Based on what the Rav spoke about tonight, about how Avraham Avinu was careful to take a wife for יצחק 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 משדך with a גיורת?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Finding the Center of the Universe
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Rabbi, do you really believe that the earth is the center of the universe?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on the Ushpizin
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We have a tradition that Avraham Avinu will be coming as a guest to our sukkahs on the first night of Yom Tov. How is it possible for Avraham Avinu to be in thousands of sukkahs at one moment?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rejecting the Nations of the World
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I heard that Hashem offered the Torah to all the Gentile nations but they didn’t accept. Where do we know that from? Is it really true?
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