Q:How should we understand the sins of the students of Rabbi Akiva that caused so many thousands of them to die?
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Rav Avigdor Miller on The Cruel Kollel Man
Q:You mentioned before an example of a talmid chacham who sits and learns when he has no money for his family; he’s depending upon support from the outside. Is that the proper way for a husband to fulfill his responsibilities towards his family?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Dor Hamidbar
Q: The Rav said tonight that the Dor Hamidbar, the Generation of the Wilderness, was the cream of the crop and that we should study the chumash and model our lives after them. So why did they lose their chelek in Olam Habah according to one tanna?
Rav Avigdor Miller on A Woman’s Olam Haboh
Q:Do women get a separate Olam Haboh or do they share it with their husband?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rabbi Akiva’s Students
Q: What does it mean that the talmidim of Rabbi Akiva were not נוהג כבוד זה לזה, that they didn’t treat each other with respect?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Why Did Rabbi Akiva’s Students Die
Q: Rabbi Miller, I want you to know, I walked an hour and fifteen minutes to this Torah class today and I very rarely do that.
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 Studying Kabalah
Q:Is the study of kabalah, mysticism, an enhancement to the practical application of Torah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Moshe Rabbeinu and the Ktzos
Q: How are we to understand the ma’amar chazal that describes Moshe Rabeinu having a vision in which he saw Rabbi Akiva teaching Torah and Rabbi Akiva was teaching things that even Moshe Rabeinu didn’t know? How is it possible that Moshe Rabeinu shouldn’t know what Rabbi Akiva knew?