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.
Tag: Shabbos
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 Shabbos Goy
Q:Since Hashem made the world and it’s really a chiyuv for everybody to recognize that and to thank Hashem, so what is so terrible if a goy keeps the Shabbos in honor of Hashem and to give gratitude to Hashem for making the world? Why is a גוי ששבת חייב מיתה?
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?
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 Shabbos Candles
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 Shabbos and Yetzias Mitzrayim
Q:In kiddush on Friday night we say that Shabbos is zeicher l’yetzias Mitzrayim; it’sa remembrance of our going out of Egypt. In what way is Shabbos supposed to remind us of Yetzias Mitzrayim?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Gentile and the Shabbos
Q: Why isn’t a goy allowed to keep Shabbos? Since Shabbos is zecher l’maaseh breishis, it’s a memorial to the creation of the world, so it should be for everybody?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Becoming a Talmid Chochom
Q: If a person feels like he hasn’t accomplished enough in his learning, how can you expect him to be happy working at a full-time job in order to support his family? He wants to sit and shteig and become a talmid chochom.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shabbos Sleep
Q:Should one sleep on Shabbos afternoon?