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Parshas Vayikra with Rav Avigdor Miller The Precious Mind Part I. On Your Mind Learning From the Insane I’ll begin tonight’s subject with a short introduction. It’s just an anecdote but I think it’s an important preface to the subject. I was once in my home late at night – I was in my pajamas…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Pekudei Important Details Shimmy and Yitzy Greenbaum walked home discussing the Mishkan. Their cheder was having a contest to see who could remember all of the details of the Mishkan and they both wanted to win the grand prize. But it was really hard – there were so many things to…

Parshas Pekudei with Rav Avigdor Miller The Torah Nation Part I.A Fire is Kindled The King’s Scroll-Room וַיְהִי בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן בַּשָּׁנָה הַשֵּׁנִית בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ הוּקַם הַמִּשְׁכָּן – The greatest day in the history of the world had finally arrived. On the first day of Nissan the dwelling place for Hashem was established and the Presence…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Vayakhel No Time for Silliness Nechemia and Shlomo nervously knocked on the office door. Why had the Mashgiach called for them? They didn’t think they had done anything wrong. “Come in!” called the Mashgiach warmly. The two bochurim walked cautiously into the office where their Mashgiach, Reb Yosef, was sitting at…

Parshas Vayakhel with Rav Avigdor Miller Three Roads to Greatness Part I. Ordinary Service The Half-Shekel In the ancient days of our nation a very big event took place every year which attracted a great deal of attention, and that was the collection of the machatzis hashekel. Today we still have a small zecher of…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas KI Sisa Being A Servant “Mmmm…” said Chesky, as Totty drove down 16th Avenue in Boro Park. “Is everything okay?” asked Totty. “That’s the third time you said that in the past five minutes.” “Everything is amazing, Totty!” Chesky answered. “I’m just enjoying the beautiful scent of Klal Yisroel like we…

Parshas Ki Sisa with Rav Avigdor Miller Speaking Up Part I. Speaking Up From Love The Terrible Event In this week’s sedrah the Torah tells us that when Moshe Rabeinu came down from Har Sinai with the stone tablets he had received from Hakodosh Boruch Hu, he saw that in the interim a very terrible…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Tetzaveh Smelling With Our Brains Rochel Leah sat on the front steps of her house with her friend Sorah Miriam. The girls had just come home from school and were happily chatting. A new bakery had just opened next door and the whole block smelled amazing. Even the sight of the…

Parshas Tetzaveh with Rav Avigdor Miller Career of Listening Part I. Dedicating the Ear The Blood of the Ram When the Kohanim were inducted into the service of the Beis Hamikdash for the first time, before they would be permitted to approach the mizbeach to bring korbanos, an Eil Hamiluim, a Ram of Consecration was…

Toras Avigdor Junior Parshas Terumah The Guards at Shul “You’ll never catch me!” cried Moishy as he zipped past his friends. “Oh yes we will!” shouted Eli and Avi. “No, I’m gonna get you!” squealed Dovy as he ran after them through the Shul lobby. “Ha ha, I got you!” exclaimed Avi. “No you didn’t!”…