Q:What does the gemara mean when it says that כל מי שאין בו דעה אסור לרחם עליו – it’s forbidden to have pity on a man if he has no sense?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Marrying Young
Q: Should one’s readiness for matrimony be judged by age only?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Is There Hope For America
Q: The Rav mentioned at the beginning of the lecture that it was because of its wealth that Mitzrayim became depraved. Does the Rav see a parallel in that with what’s happening in America?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Purim vs. Mattan Torah
Q:When the Am Yisroel experienced the neis of Purim, so it says, קיימו מה שקבלו כבר, that they they accepted the whole Torah again only this time it was willingly. Did the generation in the time of Mordechai actually become better than our forefathers were at Matan Torah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Amalek’s Brotherly Impudence
Q:Why did Amalek attack the Jewish people when they knew that Hashem had just performed remarkable miracles for them?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Ebola Virus
Q: What should we think and do when we hear about the outbreak of a terrible virus in another part of the world – a virus that destroys most people who come in contact with it? (This question was asked of the Rav zatzal in early 1995 as the Ebola virus was spreading in Africa)
Rav Avigdor Miller on Keeping Away From Germs
Q: The Rav mentioned tonight that we are admonished to not put our fingers in our mouths or in our noses unless we wash our hands first with soap and water. And you even quoted the Gemara that says יד לחוטם תקצץ יד לפה תקצץ – “The hand that goes into the nose or into the…
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Happy Frummeh
Q: Why is it that non-religious seem to be happier than frum people sometimes?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Gentile and the Shabbos
Q: Why isn’t a goy allowed to keep Shabbos? Since Shabbos is zecher l’maaseh breishis, it’s a memorial to the creation of the world, so it should be for everybody?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shalom Bayis
Q:If a husband and a wife attempt to live in peace and they succeed, can their happiness in this world be deducted from their happiness in the next world? Also can their shalom bayis ever be taken away from them as a punishment for sin.