Q: What is the benefit of saying the Ani Ma’amins every day? I believe it. Why do I have to keep repeating it? A:The answer is that it makes a tremendous difference in a person’s emunah. Some people’s emunah is like a very thin layer of paint – you give a little scrape and the paint comes off. Some people’s emunah is thicker than…
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Whom to Ask About the President
Q:Is President Nixon an אוהב ישראל? Does he love the Jewish People?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Getting Rid of a Bad Reputation
Q:How can a girl of twenty-one get rid of a bad reputation?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Irreligious Israeli Soldiers in Olam Habah
Q:I’d like quote for the Rav an anecdote from some of the greatest roshei yeshiva and thinkers such as Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz zatzal and the previous Vizhnitzer Rebbe zatzal that the irreligious Israeli soldiers have one of the most honored places in the World to Come. And, yibadeil l’chaim tovim, Rav Moshe Feinstein, said that most of the irreligious world, ruba de’ruba, are considered tinok shenishba and only a small amount are considered resha’im. In light of this would…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Israeli Soldiers Dying Al Kiddush Hashem
Q: Israeli soldiers who die in battle, are they considered martyrs for kiddush Hashem even if they are not religious?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Joining The Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Q:Should one participate with the Jewish organizations that are pursuing the fight against antisemitism in America?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Tzadik Who Begs For Bread
Q:Dovid Hamelech said: ולא ראיתי צדיק נעזב וזרעו מקבש לכם – that he never saw a righteous man who was forsaken by Hashem and had to beg for bread (Tehillim 37:25). How do you reconcile this statement with the fact that we see many poor families who have a difficulty making a living and they have to go…
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Inferiority Complex
Q:There’s a frum boy who suffers from an inferiority complex. What should he do about it?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Plays and Color War
Q:What is your opinion about frum plays that are put on? Is it a goyishe idea that should be avoided?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Airplane Crash
Q:What do you think our reaction should be to the destruction of the Pan Am jetliner?