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…
Tag: Pesach
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 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.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Nissan Redemptions
Q:Why does it say that בניסן נגאלו ובניסן עתידים להיגאל – that in Nissan we were redeemed from Egypt and that in Nissan are going to be redeemed again?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Thanking All Day Long
Q: We are so busy getting ready for the Pesach Seder. But why don’t we thank Hashem for everything else beside Yetzias Mitzrayim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Yetzias Mitzrayim
Q: The Rav said in the shiur that at least two million Jews came out of Mitzrayim. Doesn’t the Torah say that the number was 600,000?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Great Escape
Q:Why did Moshe Rabeinu tell Pharaoh that the Jews wanted to leave for three days if really his intention was to never return?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Half-Hallel
Q:Why do we say only only Hallel Katan, half Hallel, on Pesach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Seder in the Morning
Q:The Rav said earlier that the more significant part of yetzias mitzrayim was in the morning when they escaped the environment of Mitzrayim. So why do we have the Seder at night and not in the morning?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pesach Hotels, Matzoh Balls, New Hagaddahs and Eliyahu Hananvi
Q: Why does the Rav think that going to a hotel for Pesach is such a big sin? A lot of gedolim do it.