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?
Tag: Pesach
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chol Hamoed Lunch
Q: Is it a mitzvah to eat matzah on Chol Hamoed?
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 because that’s when the Am Yisroel left Egypt and finally escaped the gentile environment. So why do we have the Seder at night and not in the morning?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Ten Drops of Wine at the Seder
Q: The Rabbi mentioned in his lecture tonight that we are expected to rejoice at the downfall of the wicked and that’s why we celebrate the punishment of the Mitzrim. If that’s really true, then why do we take drops of wine out of the cup of wine at the Seder?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Matzah and Enthusiasm
Q:How does one maintain enthusiasm in mitzvos?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pesach Hotels
Q: Do you approve of celebrating Pesach in a hotel?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Thanking For Yetzias Mitzrayim
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?
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…