Q:If the tests that Hashem gives us are necessary to acquire greatness – we need these tests to cause us to prove ourselves and achieve perfection – so why do we pray for Hashem not to test us?
Tag: Yetzer Hara
Rav Avigdor Miller on Don’t Despair of Knowing Torah
Q:How can one talk himself out of his despair in knowing the Torah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Instant Spiritual Pick-Me-Up
Q:It’s almost Yom Kippur already. What is the fastest acting spiritual vitamin one can take for an instant spiritual pick-me-up?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Know Your Enemy: The Yetzer Horah
Q:You said that when a person tries to do something good in avodas Hashem so right away the yetzer horah puts up roadblocks. So if I would like to start working on improving my middos, mistama the yetzer horah will come against me because its a good thing. How might the yetzer horah come against a person who is working on his middos?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Elderly and Grumpy
Q:Does it become more difficult for a person to get along with others when he gets older? And if yes, why?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Don’t Celebrate the 15th of Av
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.
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?