Q: What’s the explanation of the Mishna (Avos 3:9) that if someone stops learning Torah to look at a tree, and says Mah na’eh ilan zeh – “How beautiful is this tree!” so the Torah considers it as if he is deserving of death?
Tag: Learning Mussar
Rav Avigdor Miller on Do I Practice What I Preach
Q: Is there a difference between the advice that you give us and what you tell yourself? What I mean is – do you practice what you preach?
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 Learning Mussar
Q: How much mussar is a person required to learn every day? And what kind of mussar is best to learn?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Learning the Ramchal’s Seforim
Q: Someone told me that I shouldn’t learn the sefer דעת תבונות from the Ramchal. What does the Rav say?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Bein Hazmanim Driving Lessons
Q: Do you consider it a waste of time from limud Torah for a yeshiva man to take out time during bein hazmanim for driving lessons?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Strolling with the Gedolim
Q: How can one get close to a גדול בתורה, someone who is great in Torah and a real tzadik, in order to be able to learn from him and grow?
Rav Avigdor Miller on the Mussar Lesson in the Hospital Bed
Q: How does one give mussar to someone who doesn’t want to hear it?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Giving Mussar to Your Children
Q: Chazal say that Yakov Avinu waited until right before he died to give his children mussar. How could he raise his children all those years without giving them any mussar?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Surviving in a Bad Environment
Q: How can a person, who because of his parnasa must deal with people who are a bad influence, survive spiritually in this bad environment?