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Tag: Environment: Its Influence
Rav Avigdor Miller on American Elul
Q: Why is it that in Europe, in the yeshivos and even among the balabatim, there was a real sensation of eimas ha’din, the fear of the upcoming judgement during Elul, while here in America we don’t see that type of feeling? Aren’t we frum just like they were in Europe?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Power of Free Choice
Q: How do you understand the phenomenon that sometimes you have non-religious or anti-religious parents who have religious children and sometimes it’s the other way around – you have religious parents who have non-religious children?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why We Don’t Celebrate the 15th of Av
Q:Why don’t we celebrate Chamisha Asar B’Av like we did in the olden days? It says in the Gemara (Taanis 26b, 31a) that on the 15th of Av the unmarried girls would go out to the fields and dance and the men would choose wives.
Rav Avigdor Miller on Raising Children
Q:How do we help our children prepare themselves to stand strong against all the negative influences of the outside world?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Choosing the Right Scientists
Q:How do I respond to someone who shows me the recent article about evolution in the Jewish Action and tells me that evolution is true, but that it was caused by Hashem?
Rav Avigdor Miller on What is Lashon Nekiyah
Q:Chazal tell us that we should always make sure to speak lashon nekiyah, a clean language (Pesachim 3a). How does one make the determination of what is included in the category of clean or unclean language?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Jewish Non-Jews and How To Bring Them back
Q: What should be our behavior toward radical leftist Jews, reform Jews, and reconstructionist Jews?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Tefillah B’kavana
Q: What is a good preparation someone could make to achieve tefilla b’kavana?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Achieving Greatness in Our Generation
Q: Is it possible today to arrive at the greatness of the old generations? And if it is possible, then why doesn’t it happen?