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Parshas Beshalach with Rav Avigdor Miller Bread from the Heavens Part I. Mann from the Heavens The Stupendous Spectacle The mann is the most unusual story of antiquity; you can search but you won’t find anything like it in the history of our people, or l’havdil in the annals of the nations. That a nation…

Parshas Bo with Rav Avigdor Miller Night of the Locked Doors Part I. Closing the Door on the Destroyer The Terrible Night Let us imagine that this is the night before Yetzias Mitzrayim. Tomorrow we will finally be leaving Egypt after 210 years and we’re sitting now in our homes eating the Korban Pesach. Our…

Parshas Va’era with Rav Avigdor Miller Judgments with Justice Part I. Studying the Makkos Why Did The Makkos Come? When we study the story of the ten makkos, it’s important to make clear beforehand what their function was. And therefore, one thing must be established at the beginning – the purpose of the makkos was…

Parshas Shemos with Rav Avigdor Miller Career of Aspirations Part I. Setting Out The Floating Basket Everyone remembers the story of that little baby boy in a basket who was aimlessly floating on the Nile River. And the truth is we should have never heard of him again because that basket should have kept on…

Parshas Vayechi with Rav Avigdor Miller Becoming One People Part I. One Nation Yaakov Avinu’s Fear on His Deathbed The gemara in Pesachim (56a) tells us that when Yaakov Avinu was lying on his deathbed with his sons surrounding him, he was very uneasy, very troubled. What was he worried about? Our chachomim tell us…

Parshas Mikeitz With Rav Avigdor Miller Pride of Israel Part I. Culture Shock The Story of Chanukah In Mesichta Shabbos (21b) the question is asked: מַאי חֲנוּכָּה – What’s Chanukah all about? And we all know the answer to that – it was יְוָנִים נִקְבְּצוּ עָלַי, the wicked Greeks gathered against us to destroy us….

פרשת וישב With Rav Avigdor Miller The Beloved Zealot Part I. Righteous Zealotry Yosef and His Brothers וַיָּבֵא יוֹסֵף אֶת דִּבָּתָם רָעָה אֶל אֲבִיהֶם – And Yosef brought the evil report about his brothers to their father (Vayeishev 37:2). That’s one of the first things we learn in the Torah about Yosef Hatzadik – that…

פרשת וישלח With Rav Avigdor Miller The Disturbed Wicked Part I. Esav’s Disturbances Esav Escapes וַיִּקַּח עֵשָׂו אֵת כָּל קִנְיָנוֹ אֲשֶׁר רָכַשׁ בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן – And Esav took all of his possessions that he had acquired in Eretz Cana’an – it means he took his wives and his children, and all of his livestock and…

פרשת ויצא With Rav Avigdor Miller The Afflicted Righteous Part I. Leah’s Affliction Builders Of Our Nation In Mesichta Bava Basra (123a) the gemara quotes a statement from Rabbi Yonason as follows: רְאוּיָה הָיְתָה בְּכוֹרָה לָצֵאת מֵרָחֵל – The birthright of the Am Yisroel should really have come from Rochel – that means that the…

פרשת תולדות With Rav Avigdor Miller Esav and His World Part I. Esav’s World Signs of a Leader When this week’s parsha describes for us the birth of Eisav we read the following words: וַיֵּצֵא הָרִאשׁוֹן אַדְמוֹנִי – The first one came out and he was ruddy (Toldos 25:25), and we note right away that…