Q:If someone has the choice of learning quantity or quality what do you recommend? Should he concentrate on learning in depth or on covering ground?
Tag: Learning Torah
Rav Avigdor Miller on Vacationing at Home
Q: My husband loves to learn but I want him to take a vacation. But he tells me that his vacation is to be able to sit and learn. What should I do?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Becoming a Talmid Chochom
Q: If a person feels like he hasn’t accomplished enough in his learning, how can you expect him to be happy working at a full-time job in order to support his family? He wants to sit and shteig and become a talmid chochom.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Starting a New Zman
Q: What is a way for a yeshiva man to prepare for a new zman in yeshiva?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Is Learning Chumash a Laziness?
Q: 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?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Yeshiva University and the Mir
Q:Should I discourage my son from going to Yeshiva University?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Torah of the Trees
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?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Working Kollel Man
Q:Can a kollel man who leaves the yeshiva still remain a yeshiva man even while he’s involved in business?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Thinking For Five Minutes Straight
Q: In one of the previous lectures the Rav mentioned that if someone wants to grow great, he should think for five minutes each day on a certain possuk. Can you elaborate on that?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Iyun and Bekiyus
Q: Why is that in the yeshivos so much time is put into iyun, the slower and deeper method of studying gemara, and not so much on covering more ground?