Q:How can we eat a big seudah with simcha on Rosh Hashana when we’re being judged and our fate is in the balance?
Tag: Rosh Hashana
Rav Avigdor Miller on Fearing the Day of Judgement
Q:Now that the judgment is coming, what can we do in order to find happiness as we approach the Day of Judgment?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Nation That Knows the Shofar
Q:It states in Tehillim, אשרי העם יודעי תרועה – Praised is the nation that knows the shofar blowing (Tehillim 89:16). What is the meaning and significance of this quotation?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The First Teshuva
Q:Why does Yom Kippur come after Rosh Hashana? Wouldn’t it be better to do teshuva before Yom Hadin?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Ten Minute Rosh Hashana Prep
Q: The Rav said tonight that we should get busy before Rosh Hashanah remembering all the good that Hashem has given us since last Rosh Hashanah. But don’t we have to spend the little time time we have left thinking about our sins and our behavior over the past year and making resolutions for improving this coming…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Rosh Hashana’s Avodah
Q:If Rosh Hashana is the Yom Hadin, the day that Hashem is judging us, shouldn’t we spend the whole day saying vidui and confessing our sins?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Raising Up Hashem on Rosh Hashana
Q:What does it mean עלה אלוקים בתרועה והשם בקול שופר – Elokim goes up at the sound of the shofar blast; He goes up at the sound of the shofar. What does it mean “He goes up”?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Dipping The Apple In The Honey
Q: What does the Gemara mean when it says סימנא מילתא היא with regards to eating the simanim on Rosh Hashanah (Horiyos 12a)? How is eating a carrot or gourd a good siman for the new year?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Pre-Rosh Hashanah Resolutions
Q: Every year, before Rosh Hashana comes along, I make kabolos, resolutions, about improving myself in various areas of my service of Hashem. But here I am a week before another Rosh Hashanah, the same schlepper I’ve always been.
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Decree of Parnasa
Q: If on Rosh Hashanah Hakodosh Boruch Hu decrees my parnasa for the upcoming year then why do I have to go out and work hard to make a living?