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Parshas Pinchas with Rav Avigdor Miller Light of Renewal Part I. Our Light The Rosh Chodesh Present Every Rosh Chodesh, during the mussaf tefillah we quote the following words from this week’s sedrah: וּשְׂעִיר עִזִּים אֶחָד לְחַטָּאת לֲהַשֵׁם – On the first day of every month one male of the goats is brought as a…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Balak Choosing The Right Path Continued from Parshas Chukas: Yitzy and Shimmy had just walked away with Totty from “Tzadok Hatzadik” and his table full of “segulot”, when then the loud sound of a police siren was heard. “Stop! Police!” shouted two cops as they jumped out of their police car….

Parshas Balak with Rav Avigdor Miller A Nation Apart Part I. World of Separation The Gentile Prophet The story of Bilaam and his prophecy about the Am Yisroel is an episode unlike anything else in the entire Torah. All of a sudden a gentile comes into the picture and he’s speaking words that take up…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Chukas Holy Rocks and Holy Cows French Hill, Yerushalayim As Shimmy and Yitzy walked out of shul after Mincha, they saw something they had never seen before. A man wearing a tallis and two pairs of tefillin was standing by a table with a big sign that said “HaSegulot Shel Tzadok…

Parshas Chukas with Rav Avigdor Miller Parables of Cheshbon Part I. City of Cheshbon No Trespassing When the Bnei Yisroel received the command from Hakodosh Boruch Hu to finally leave the wilderness and cross over the Jordan River into Eretz Cana’an, they still had to pass through various kingdoms that were situated on the Ever…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Korach A Mouth For A Mouth Friday Morning, Beis Yaakov Ateres Ahuva Shira listened excitedly as Morah Temima talked about the Parsha. No other teacher in the school told over the Parsha as well as her. She always made it sound so exciting. “And then Korach and his people, hundreds of…

Parshas Korach with Rav Avigdor Miller Garden of Positive Thought Part I. The Garden The Neglected Field In Mishlei perek chaf daled, possuk lamed, Shlomo Hamelech tells us a short story: עַל שְׂדֵה אִישׁ עָצֵל עָבַרְתִּי – I once passed by the field of a lazy man, וְעַל כֶּרֶם אָדָם חֲסַר לֵב — and he…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Shelach A Medal for McGillicuddy Sunday Afternoon, University City, Missouri BAP BITTY BAP DITTY BOP BA!!!! Moishy and Dovid Friedman ran to the window at the sound of trumpets blasting. What was going on??? “Mommy, Totty!” they cried. “Look! It’s a marching band coming down our street! When was the last…

Parshas Shelach with Rav Avigdor Miller Weapons of the Torah Part I. The Battle and The Weapons Measure of Success In the beginning of his sefer, the Mesillas Yesharim tells us a fundamental principle that should remain in the front of our minds always. He says there that hatov ha’amiti, the true good that a…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Behaaloscha Being Humble Shimmy sat quietly as Totty drove down the winding country road. A shiur from Rav Avigdor Miller was playing, and while Shimmy didn’t understand everything the Rov said – he used very fancy words sometimes – but it was still very interesting. After the shiur finished, Shimmy turned…