Q:Sometimes we see in the Gemara that the chachomim in Eretz Yisroel would refer to the Jews in Bavel as בבלאי טפשאי, those foolish Babylonians. How does that fit with the idea that you’re not supposed to ridicule people?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Danger of Misgendering
Q: Why is it that Hashem is referred to as “He” or “Him”? Why don’t we say “She” or “Her”?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Utilizing Rosh Chodesh
Q:What’s so special about Rosh Chodesh that we say Hallel and that it’s called a מועד?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Starving Talmid Chochom
Q:What is it that causes a young man who is learning Torah and is seemingly doing well in his studies to feel dissatisfied and to yearn for success elsewhere?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Stubborn Lose Out
Q:Makkas Barad it says that הירא את דבר השם, the ones who feared Hashem, brought their animals inside before the hail began in order to save their property. But didn’t they all see what Moshe Rabeinu had been doing with the Makkos already for such a long time? How could there be anyone who wasn’t yarei es…
Rav Avigdor Miller on חיים שיש בהם ובנו יראת שמים
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 – a life that…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Taking The Blame
Q:The Rav said tonight that when someone gets sick or hurt, he shouldn’t blame Hashem, but he should look to blame himself for not taking care of himself properly. But shouldn’t we be looking back to see which sins we did to cause Hashem to punish us with the cold or the virus or whatever…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Resolving An Inferiority Complex
Q:There’s a frum boy who suffers from an inferiority complex. What should he do about it?
Rav Avigdor Miller on TV Rebels
Q:If a child comes home every day begging for a TV, should we let him once in a while go to a friend’s house in order to prevent him from rebelling?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Too Dead To Be Sorry
Q:How do I answer my cousin who says she went to an Ivy League college and wasn’t affected? She says she’s not sorry she went because it had no effect on her.