Q: What is a good preparation someone could make to achieve tefilla b’kavana?
Tag: Davening
Rav Avigdor Miller on Davening in a Telephone Booth
Q: What should one’s reaction be when he hears that his friend’s child is very sick?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why Bother Davening?
Q: Why do we bother davening if everything that happens to us is for the good anyways? Shouldn’t we just spend the time thanking Hashem or asking Hashem to help us accept everything properly?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Asking Hashem and Not Getting Answered
Q: Should I continue praying for something that I desire to get, even though I’ve been praying for so long already and I haven’t seen any results?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Great Cancer of our Nation
Q: In the shul that I daven, people are always talking and making noise. Should I try to make some sort of quiet by making a scene about it, or should I just leave and find a quieter shul?
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?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Mcdonalds, Davening, Jewish History, CPR, Comets and Chinese Auctions
Q: Is there anything wrong with patronizing a kosher branch of a fast-food store that is modeled after a goyishe franchise? Let’s say there’s a glatt kosher McDonalds, can I go in there to eat?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Saying You To Hashem (May 1999)
Q: How does one acquire אמונה חושית, tangible belief in Hashem?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Keeping Far Away From the Jewish Underworld
Q: In one of your books you write that davening with Modern Orthodox people who aren’t serious about serving Hashem is compared to sha’atnez – a mixing that is unfavorable in the eyes of Hashem. But I thought that we are obligated to daven with all Jews – sinners as well?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Who Needs the Malachim?
Q: Why does Hashem need malachim to constantly praise Him?