Q:We say Avinu Malkeinu during these days of teshuva and I noticed that in Shemona Esrei, in the bracha of teshuva (השבינו) and in the bracha of selicha (סלח לנו) we use those words. Why is Avinu Malkeinu used in those brachos specifically?
Tag: Yiras Shomayim
Rav Avigdor Miller on Hurricanes and Holocausts
Q:What could we learn from the hurricane that was supposed to come today? {this question was referencing either Hurricane Gordon or Hurricane Helene of late September 2000}
Rav Avigdor Miller on American Elul
Q: Why is it that in Europe, in the yeshivos and even among the balabatim, there was a real sensation of eimas ha’din, the fear of the upcoming judgement during Elul, while here in America we don’t see that type of feeling? Aren’t we frum just like they were in Europe?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Amalek’s Crime
Q: What was the crime of Amalek that we are expected to remember always?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Searching Out Our Ways
Q:How should one prepare for the Yomim Nora’im?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Happy Frummeh
Q: Why is it that non-religious seem to be happier than frum people sometimes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Shabbos Mevorchim Tefillah
Q:On the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh, when we bless the new month before mussaf, we ask Hashem for a month of חיים שיש בהם יראת שמים – life that has in it fear of Hashem. And then a few lines after that we say, חיים שתהא בנו אהבת תורה ויראת שמים. Why is it repeated?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Disasters in Turkey for Brooklyn
Q: How does the Rav explain the significance of the repeated earthquakes in Turkey [August 17th 1999 and November 12th 1999]?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Learning Mishlei
Q: I would like to learn Mishlei from beginning to end for the first time in my life. Can you give me some advice about how to approach the learning of this sefer?