Q: Why do we read the tochacha at such a rapid pace and so quietly? Wouldn’t it be more effective if we read it slowly and with more emphasis?
Tag: Punishment
Rav Avigdor Miller on Reading the Tochacha In Shul
Q:If all the paths of the Torah are paths of happiness, so why is Parshas Ki Savo full of tochacha – warnings about unhappiness and punishment?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Understanding the Holocaust
Q:You mentioned tonight one of the reasons for why Hashem brought the Holocaust. Are you saying that all the events of the Holocaust are fully understandable to us?
Rav Avigdor Miller on How to Deal With an Insolent Boy
Q: A boy was insolent to his rebbi in the yeshiva. How should his parents react?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Neshama and the Electric Chair
Q:The state of Texas already executed forty people this year. Is that a good move on the part of Texas?
Rav Avigdor Miller on When to Punish a Child
Q: Which things require a child to be punished?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Electric Chair
Q:Why is death prescribed as the Torah’s punishment for a navi sheker, a false prophet? Shouldn’t we just help him seek mental health guidance?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pity on the Wicked
Q:If Hashem is a rachum v’chanun so why are the sinners suffering? And shouldn’t we have pity on the sinners who are suffering?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Everything
Q: What can one do to fight the bad midah of ga’avah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why Were Good People Killed During the Holocaust
Q: The Gemara in Baba Kama teaches us that when Hashem gives permission to the “mashchis” to destroy, the “mashchis“ does not differentiate between a tzaddik and a rasha. Why is this so?