Q: This week marks the 50th anniversary of the end of World War 2. What was the Rav thinking fifty years ago when the war ended?
Tag: Holocaust
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Ignore Yom Hashoah
Q: Can you explain to me why some synagogues do not observe the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) observance for the Holocaust victims?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Countries That Hitler Spared
Q:Why were the Danish and Finnish Jews spared in the Holocaust? Were they better than the Jews in other countries?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Prayer and Teshuva To Be Saved From Hitler
Q: Why didn’t the gedolim in Europe gather all Jews together for fasting and teshuva the same way as Mordechai did when he saw a Holocaust coming?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Clean Jewish Homes
Q:Should religious Jews be careful to have neat and clean homes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Understanding the Holocaust
Q:You mentioned tonight one of the reasons for why Hashem brought the Holocaust. Are you saying that all the events of the Holocaust are fully understandable to us?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Hurricanes and Holocausts
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}
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Kedoshim of the Holocaust
Q: Would you say that the people who were killed in the Holocaust died al kiddush Hashem?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Apikoris in the Gas Chamber
Q: The Rav gave an example tonight of people in the concentration camps who were still rejecting Hakodosh Boruch Hu even at the very end. The Rav also spoke about how yissurim take off some of the punishment even without kavanah. But if someone rejects it all together, an apikoris, will it still be an atonement for the person? Or is…
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Holocaust
Q: Could it really be correct what you are saying that the Holocaust was due to the cooling off in the enthusiasm, in view of the fact that there were so many yeshivos and so many rabbis in Europe?