Q:I want to ask a question about Purim. It says that Achashveirosh gave the Jews the right to defend themselves again. And I would like to know, what would have happened if he didn’t give this right? Wouldn’t they try to defend themselves anyway somehow?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Real Takeaway of Purim
Q: The Rav spoke tonight about the lesson of Purim being the internalizing of how much Hashem loves us and our responsibility to love Him and to love the Am Yisroel. But isn’t it possible to say that the Simchas Purim is because of קיימו וקיבלו, that the Jewish Nation accepted the Torah again after the…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Purim
Q: Yaakov Avinu dealt with Eisav by sending him gift in order to appease him. Why in the time of Purim didn’t we try to do our hishtadlus by trying to bribe Achashveirosh?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Moshe Rabeinu Fills His Days
Q: Is there any significance in the fact that our great teacher, Moshe Rabeinu, passed away on the same day that he was born?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Calling People Fools
Q: Sometimes we see in the gemara that the chachomim in Eretz Yisroel would refer to the Jews in Bavel as בבלאי טפשאי, those foolish Babylonians. How does that fit together with the idea that you’re not supposed to ridicule people?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rock and Roll and Opera
Q: Can listening continually to rock and roll music hurt a person?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Gam Zu L’Tovah
Q: How can one truly believe that everything is gam zu l’tova, that it’s all for the good?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Newton’s Reward
Q:Did Newton earn reward for discovering the Law of Gravity and other laws of physics?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Forced To Say Amen
Q: It says that גדול העונה אמן יותר מן המברך, that the one that says amen to a bracha is bigger than the one who makes the bracha (Brachos 53b). Why is that?
Rav Avigdor Miller on TV and Cocaine
Q:What should a married woman do with no TV in the house all day long?