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Tag: Shabbos
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Chicken or the Egg
Q:When Hashem created the world, what came first, the chicken or the egg?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Missile Attacks in Eretz Yisroel
Q:What should have been the proper reaction of the Jews in Tel-Aviv to the missile attacks this week?
Rav Avigdor Miller on a Good Cholent is Better Than Moshiach
Q:What’s pshat in the statement of Chazal that Moshiach won’t come on Erev Shabbos?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shabbos and Yetzias Mitzrayim
Q:In kiddush on Friday night we say that Shabbos is zeicher l’yetzias Mitzrayim; it’s a remembrance of our going out of Egypt. In what way is Shabbos supposed to remind us of Yetzias Mitzrayim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Dealing With A Mechalel Shabbos
Q:If someone is mechalel Shabbos in his business despite urging by others to close his store, should we nevertheless treat him as an equal or should we disdain him until he gives in?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Lighting Up The World
Q:There’s a Gemara (Shabbos 23b) that says that if someone is careful with lighting candles so he’ll have children that are talmidei chachamim. What does that mean? What’s the connection?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Additional Shabbos Soul
Q:Rashi in Beitzah (16a) explains that the purpose of the neshama yiseirah, the additional soul that Jew gets on Shabbos, is so that a person should be able to eat more on Shabbos. I think that’s a very strange reason to get an additional soul.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Preventing the Sufferings of Moshiach
Q:The gemara says that anyone who fulfills the mitzvah of eating three meals on Shabbos is spared from three sufferings, the sufferings of moshiach, the suffering of the judgement of Gehinom, and the milchemes Gog u’Mogog. How does eating on Shabbos come instead of the chevlei moshiach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Neshama Yeseirah
Q:Rashi explains that the purpose of the neshamah yeseirah that a Jew gets on Shabbos is so that he should be able to eat more on Shabbos (Beitzah 16a). Isn’t that a very strange reason to get an additional soul?