Q:What is the best method of teaching of being mikareiv young people, even our own children, to come to awareness of Hashem and to have the fortitude to contend with nisyanos?
Tag: Avraham Avinu
Rav Avigdor Miller on Entertaining Guests Instead of Davening
Q:The Gemara says that from the story of Avraham Avinu in this week’s parsha we learn that גדולה הכנסת אורחים יותר מקבלת פני השכינה – it’s greater to entertain wayfarers more than to receive the presence of the Shechinah. How does that apply in real life?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Looking and Greeting
Q: You mentioned tonight that we should fulfill the words of the Mishna, to be מקבל כל אדם בסבר פנים יפות – to greet everyone with a nice facial expression. But isn’t it a right way for a humble man always to have his eyes downcast when he walks?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Test of Discouragement
Q:You said earlier that the reward, the good things that happen to a righteous person are intended as encouragement for him to continue in his ways. Does that mean that the bad things that happen to righteous people should be considered discouragement?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Sarah’s Laughter
Q:When Hashem informed Avrohom and Soroh that they would have a child it seems like they doubted it – they both laughed. But then Soroh is criticized and Avrohom is not. What was the difference?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Remembering The Bad Old Days
Q: In this past week’s parsha we read about the one who brings bikurim, the first fruits of his field, to the Beis Hamikdash to express gratitude to Hashem. What is the reason that he has to make the declaration of ארמי אובד אבי? Why does he have to he mention that Avraham Avinu was a lost Aramean, a wandering person who left his home and…
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Avos and Har Sinai
Q: Why didn’t Hashem give the Torah to our Avos, Avraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov, instead of waiting till Har Sinai?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Har Sinai Without The Torah
Q: How could we say in the Haggadah that if Hashem would have just brought us to Har Sinai and hadn’t given us a Torah, dayeinu – that it would have been enough?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Are Greetings Blessings
Q: When one Jew blesses another Jew and he says, “You should be well and your family should be well,” is it also a tefilla because he’s saying it because he wants that Jew to be well?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why No Miracles Today
Q: You said a moment ago that it’s easier to come closer to Hakodosh Boruch Hu by seeing open miracles and that’s why our forefathers in the midbar saw miracles. Why don’t we have open miracles today to give chizuk to our emunah?