Q:In this week’s sedrah when Pharaoh asked Yaakov, “How long are the years of your life?” so Yaakov answered that his days were not as good as the days of his fathers. What did Yaakov intend by that answer?
Tag: Yaakov Avinu
Rav Avigdor Miller on Delaying Marriage
Q:How does a girl know when she’s ready for marriage?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Love at First Sight
Q:It states in Parshas Vayeitzei that “Yaakov kissed Rochel” when he saw her the first time. But Rabbi Miller has stated that there is no such thing as love at first sight. Don’t we see from here that romance is true?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Yaakov Avinu’s Shidduch Prep
Q:Why did Yaakov stop for 14 years in the yeshiva of Shem v’Ever if his father told him to go and get married?
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 Avraham Avinu and the Chofetz Chaim
Q:How does the greatness of the Chofetz Chaim compare to the greatness of the forefathers?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Purim
Q: Yaakov Avinu dealt with Eisav by sending him gift in order to appease him. Why in the time of Purim didn’t we try to do our hishtadlus by trying to bribe Achashveirosh?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Lavan the Holy Shver
Q: What was the merit of Lavan that he was zocheh to have such good daughters?
Rav Avigdor Miller on the First Brocha of Shmone Esrei
Q: The halacha is that if one has kavanah during the first bracha of Shemonah Esrei but is sleeping through the rest of davening he’s yotzei. But if he has kavanah by all the brachos but sleeps through the bracha of Avos then he’s not yotzei. What’s so special about this first bracha?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Giving Mussar to Your Children
Q: Chazal say that Yakov Avinu waited until right before he died to give his children mussar. How could he raise his children all those years without giving them any mussar?