Q:On Chanukah we hear all the time about the mesiras nefesh of the Chashmonaim. Which mitzvah could someone take upon himself nowadays to do with mesiras nefesh?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chanuka: A Big Dose of Emunah
Q:Chazal tell us that one of the nissim in the Bais Hamikdash was that the ner ma’aravi always burned longer than it should have. So why was it such a big neis that on Chanuka the oil burned for eight days?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Lighting Up The World
Q:There’s a Gemara (Shabbos 23b) that says that if someone is careful with lighting candles so he’ll have children that are talmidei chachamim. What does that mean? What’s the connection?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Chanukah Gratitude
Q:Why isn’t the neis of the oil mentioned in the Al Hanisim that we say in davening?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Secrets of the Universe
Q:I’d like to know where I can study up on the secrets of the universe?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Perfection Without Learning
Q:What can a person do if he is not the scholarly type and does not enjoy learning?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Increasing the Dose
Q:When a person has worked on a middah – he has gone to Torah classes; he’s read seforim – but still he finds that when he’s tested that he can’t control this middah; he still gives in let’s say to temper or to taavah or something like that. What does the Rav suggest?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Delaying Marriage
Q:How does a girl know when she’s ready for marriage?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Love at First Sight
Q:It states in Parshas Vayeitzei that “Yaakov kissed Rochel” when he saw her the first time. But Rabbi Miller has stated that there is no such thing as love at first sight. Don’t we see from here that romance is true?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Anonymous Savior
Q:If one knows that a married man is fooling around with somebody else, should the wife be notified?