Q:You said that we have to thank the Creator for taking us out of bondage. So my question is, what was ever done by us to deserve such a bondage in the first place?
Tag: Pesach
Rav Avigdor Miller on Springtime Holiday
Q: What is the Torah so interested that Pesach should fall out in the Chodesh Ha’aviv? What’s the difference which season we celebrate Pesach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pesach Cleaning Thoughts
Q: What is something we can think about while we’re busy with the preparations for Pesach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why Can’t We See Nissim Today
Q:I think that if the people here saw with their own eyes, the plagues and Kriyas Yam Suf and the quail and the mann falling and all the nissim that Hashem did for us, they wouldn’t have to depend upon artificial and superficial enthusiasm when doing mitzvos. Don’t you think we deserve today an injection from Hashem of real…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Matzah and Enthusiasm
Q:How does one maintain enthusiasm in mitzvos?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Purpose of Chol Hamoed
Q: What is the purpose of Chol Hamoed? A:Chol Hamoed is meant to be an opportunity for people to think over what the Yom Tov is all about. On Yom Tov we’re very busy; we’re busy bringing korbanos and making seudos and sometimes we forget to think about the lessons we’re supposed to learn from the Yomtiv. And therefore Chol Hamoed…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Remembering The Bad Old Days
Q: In this past week’s parsha we read about the one who brings bikurim, the first fruits of his field, to the Beis Hamikdash to express gratitude to Hashem. What is the reason that he has to make the declaration of ארמי אובד אבי? Why does he have to he mention that Avraham Avinu was a lost Aramean, a wandering person who left his home and…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Say Half Hallel
Q:On the last days of Pesach we say only Half-Hallel. Isn’t that because of מעשה ידי טובעים בים ואתם אומרים שירה (Megillah 10b)? Aren’t we sad that Egyptians were drowned and we therefore don’t want to sing to Hashem?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Have The Seder At Night
Q: The Rav said earlier that even more important than being freed by Pharaoh in the middle of the night, was the Yetzias Mitzrayim that took place in the morning when the Am Yisroel left Egyot and escaped the gentile environment. So why do we have the Seder at night and not in the morning?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pesach
Q: Why does the Rav think that going to a hotel for Pesach is such a big sin? A lot of gedolim do it.