Q:Considering what you spoke about tonight, that our acts in this world are eternal, so how can teshuva reverse the deeds of wickedness?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on L’maancha Elokim Chayim
Q:What does it mean when we ask Hashem for life and we say למענך אלקים חיים – “Let us live for Your sake Hashem”?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Avinu Malkeinu
Q:We say Avinu Malkeinu during these days of teshuva and I noticed that in Shemona Esrei, in the bracha of teshuva (השבינו) and in the bracha of selicha (סלח לנו) we use those words. Why is Avinu Malkeinu used in those brachos specifically?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Instant Spiritual Pick-Me-Up
Q:It’s almost Yom Kippur already. What is the fastest acting spiritual vitamin one can take for an instant spiritual pick-me-up?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rosh Hashana’s Avodah
Q:If Rosh Hashana is the Yom Hadin, the day that Hashem is judging us, shouldn’t we spend the whole day saying vidui and confessing our sins?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Raising Up Hashem on Rosh Hashana
Q:What does it mean עלה אלוקים בתרועה והשם בקול שופר – Elokim goes up at the sound of the shofar blast; He goes up at the sound of the shofar. What does it mean “He goes up”?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Dipping The Apple In The Honey
Q: What does the Gemara mean when it says סימנא מילתא היא with regards to eating the simanim on Rosh Hashanah (Horiyos 12a)? How is eating a carrot or gourd a good siman for the new year?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Additional Shabbos Soul
Q:Rashi in Beitzah (16a) explains that the purpose of the neshama yiseirah, the additional soul that Jew gets on Shabbos, is so that a person should be able to eat more on Shabbos. I think that’s a very strange reason to get an additional soul.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Teshuva and Old Friends
Q:A ba’al teshuva or even someone who is trying to better his ways and do teshuva, should he continue to associate with his non-religious or less religious friends or should he drop them and risk insulting them?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pre-Rosh Hashanah Resolutions
Q: Every year, before Rosh Hashana comes along, I make kabolos, resolutions, about improving myself in various areas of my service of Hashem. But here I am a week before another Rosh Hashanah, the same schlepper I’ve always been.