Q: When is it considered proper for a person to fast a taanis yochid [a personal fast day]?
Tag: Learning Mussar
Rav Avigdor Miller on How To Become A Baal Teshuva
Q:How can a baal teshuva root out his past ideas — the ways of thinking which interfere with his Yiddishkeit?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why Did Rabbi Akiva’s Students Die
Q: Rabbi Miller, I want you to know, I walked an hour and fifteen minutes to this Torah class today and I very rarely do that.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Smoking and Mussar
Q:What do you think of a yeshiva bochur who smokes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Obligation To Look At Nature
Q: Is there an obligation for Jews to delve into nature in order to see Hakodosh Boruch Hu or is it enough to learn Torah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Conforming To Others
Q:The gemara states that a person shouldn’t be awake when others are asleep. But if this is so, why did Dovid Hamelech stay up at night learning and singing his Tehillim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Seforim and Fruit Stores
Q:Which seforim are the most important for learning emunah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chassidus and Mussar
Q: What is the difference between Chassidim and the mussar movement?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Slabodka Mussar
Q:When one learns a mussar sefer, should he learn one line over and over again like I heard the Rav mention once, or should he keep moving and finish the whole sefer?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Women Studying Gemara
Q:To what extent should a woman strive for Torah knowledge? And which aspect of Torah should she study? Is gemara included?