Q: Can you explain to me why some synagogues do not observe the Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) observance for the Holocaust victims?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Isru Chag
Q:What’s this idea of Isru Chag; of celebrating Yom Tov on the day after Yom Tov?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Many Zivugim
Q:How does one know when he comes across the right shidduch?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Say Half Hallel
Q: On the last days of Pesach we say only half-Hallel. Isn’t that because of מעשה ידי טובעים בים ואתם אומרים שירה (Megillah 10b)? Aren’t we sad that Egyptians were drowned and we therefore don’t want to sing to Hashem?
Rav Avigdor Miller on How To Use Chol Hamoed
Q: What does the gemara mean when it says כל המבזה את המועדות כאילו עובד עבודה זרה – “Anyone who disgraces the yomim tovim, it’s considered as if he worshipped idols”?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chol Hamoed Lunch
Q: Is it a mitzvah to eat matzah on Chol Hamoed?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Have The Seder At Night
Q: The Rav said earlier that even more important than being freed by Pharaoh in the middle of the night, was the Yetzias Mitzrayim that took place in the morning because that’s when the Am Yisroel left Egypt and finally escaped the gentile environment. So why do we have the Seder at night and not in the morning?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Ten Drops of Wine at the Seder
Q: The Rabbi mentioned in his lecture tonight that we are expected to rejoice at the downfall of the wicked and that’s why we celebrate the punishment of the Mitzrim. If that’s really true, then why do we take drops of wine out of the cup of wine at the Seder?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Clean Jewish Homes
Q:Should religious Jews be careful to have neat and clean homes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on How Many Remained?
Q:The medrash on the words וחמושים עלו ממצרים says that only one out of fifty went out of Mitzrayim. Is this to be understood literally, and if yes, why was it so?