Q:Rashi in Beitzah (16a) explains that the purpose of the neshama yiseirah, the additional soul that Jew gets on Shabbos, is so that a person should be able to eat more on Shabbos. I think that’s a very strange reason to get an additional soul.
Tag: Shabbos
Rav Avigdor Miller on Preventing the Sufferings of Moshiach
Q:The gemara says that anyone who fulfills the mitzvah of eating three meals on Shabbos is spared from three sufferings, the sufferings of moshiach, the suffering of the judgement of Gehinom, and the milchemes Gog u’Mogog. How does eating on Shabbos come instead of the chevlei moshiach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Neshama Yeseirah
Q:Rashi explains that the purpose of the neshamah yeseirah that a Jew gets on Shabbos is so that he should be able to eat more on Shabbos (Beitzah 16a). Isn’t that a very strange reason to get an additional soul?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Springtime Holiday
Q: What is the Torah so interested that Pesach should fall out in the Chodesh Ha’aviv? What’s the difference which season we celebrate Pesach?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shabbos Candles
Q: There’s a Gemara (Shabbos 23b) that says that if someone is careful with lighting candles so he’ll have children that are talmidei chachamim. What does that mean? What’s the connection?
Rav Avigdor Miller on The Gentile and the Shabbos
Q: Why isn’t a goy allowed to keep Shabbos? Since Shabbos is zecher l’maaseh breishis, it’s a memorial to the creation of the world, so it should be for everybody?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Shabbos Seudos and Mashiach
Q:The gemara says that anyone who fulfills the mitzvah of eating three meals on Shabbos is spared from three sufferings, the sufferings of moshiach, the suffering of the judgement of Gehinom, and the milchemes Gog u’Mogog. What does this suffering of moshiach mean?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Enjoying Shabbos
Q: If oneg Shabbos is so important, why don’t we find it mentioned in the Torah itself? Why is it only a mitzvah m’drabanan?
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 The Working Kollel Man
Q:Can a kollel man who leaves the yeshiva still remain a yeshiva man even while he’s involved in business?