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How can we train young boys to make a laining on a piece of gemara, to be able to read a gemara on their own, without the agmas nefesh that a lot of children and parents suffer through?
Tag: Learning Gemara
Rav Avigdor Miller on Tefillah B’kavana
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What is a good preparation someone could make to achieve tefilla b’kavana?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Agadata
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What’s the general rule when it comes to the perushim of midrashim. Are they literal? Are they allegories? Are they riddles?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Motivating the Weak Student
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How can one motivate a child in a classroom who shows no interest in his studies?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Talmid Chochom Speaks to the Horse
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If the Rav is always telling us that we have to subjugate ourselves to the Gedolim who have the da’as Torah that comes from learning, why do we ourselves have to bother learning Gemara in depth and become lamdanim?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Slavery in the 21st Century (part 2)
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The Rav mentioned earlier that drinking too much coffee could be considered a form of slavery – of losing one’s free will. Can the Rav expand on some other habits that would fall in to this category?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Leaving a Newborn on the Doorstep
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What should the thoughts of a person be, when he finishes a mesechta of Gemara?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on Gemara vs. Halacha
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I only have a small amount of time to learn every day, and I was told that in the time that I have, I should learn halacha because that comes first. Is that correct? What’s most important?
Rav Avigdor Miller on When Not To Learn Chumash (June 1984)
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If a person has two subjects in Torah that he can learn, one he enjoys and one he doesn’t, which one should he study?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on How to Become a Gadol
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Does one have to be born with extraordinary abilities to become a “Gadol baTorah”?
Does one have to be born with extraordinary abilities to become a “Gadol baTorah”?
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