Q:Why don’t we celebrate Chamisha Asar B’Av like we did in the olden days? It says in the Gemara (Taanis 26b, 31a) that on the 15th of Av the unmarried girls would go out to the fields and dance and the men would choose wives.
Tag: Yetzer Hara
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Mussar Dispute
Q:Why was it that when the mussar movement started, it faced such fierce opposition?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Forced To Say Amen
Q: It says that גדול העונה אמן יותר מן המברך, that the one that says amen to a bracha is bigger than the one who makes the bracha (Brachos 53b). Why is that?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Outsmarting the Yetzer Ha’rah
Q: Should we ignore the yetzer ha’rah or should we look to outsmart him?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Niagara Falls
Q: What is your opinion of the importance of a high school taking their students on a trip to Niagara Falls?
Rav Avigdor Miller on When the Christians Are More Sincere Than You
Q: The Rav told us last week that having a television in the home is the same as having a sewage pipe leading directly into the living room, depositing the city’s sewage onto your living room floor. If that’s true, what would you compare radio and newspapers to?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Financial Planning 101
Q: How does one cope with the stress of having chovos, debts?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Hashem Shechting the Yetzer Ha’Rah
Q: The Gemara says that at the End of Days, Hashem will shecht the Yetzer Ha’rah in front of us. Why will He do this? Isn’t the Yetzer Ha’rah a shli’ach of Hashem??
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Reader’s Digest and the Jewish Press
Q: What is your opinion of The Reader’s Digest and the Jewish Press?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Har Sinai – The Antidote to the Yetzer Ha’Rah
Q: How can a parent help prepare his teenage children to resist the יצר הרע?