Q: Why do some people go to a chacham before making a shidduch to see if the names of the prospective couple are compatible?
Category: Q & A
Rav Avigdor Miller on Who Wears the Pants in the Home
Q: How can you so flippantly hand over the leadership of the family to the husband and the father? Doesn’t leadership depend on certain abilities?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Breaking Your Middos
Q: When you say, “Break your middos,” what do you mean by that?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Great Test of Luxuries
Q: Why does Hashem provide us with so many luxuries that are not necessary for mankind’s wellbeing, when all they really do is keep people busy with things that aren’t important?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Lashon Harah About Golda Meir
Q: Isn’t it lashon horah, slander, to talk negatively about a personality; for instance the way you spoke about Golda Meir?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The English Translations of Chumash
Q: In your opinion, are the Hertz commentary on Chumash and the Soncino commentary on Tanach reliable enough to be used as an English commentary?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Asking Rav Moshe Feinstein How To Fix Your Leaky Radiator
Q: In the story where Yoshiyahu Hamelech did not allow Paroh Nechoh to pass through Eretz Yisroel and as a result, it led to his death, what wrong did Yoshiyahu commit by not consulting Yirmiyahu, if he used his own judgement to make his decision?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Masses Versus The Yeshivos
Q: Suppose someone recognized the problem in the time of Hitler and did teshuva. Would it have helped or would it have been necessary for all of the Jews, or at least most of them, to do teshuva?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rav Nachman’s Stubbornness
Q: How do I deal with the fact that I keep failing in things that I want to accomplish in עבודת ה׳? I try but it doesn’t go. I feel like I just want to give up already.
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Man Who Should Be Dumped on Long Island
Q: Who should strive to be buried in Eretz Yisroel?