Q:When I was listening to this week’s parsha in shul I was wondering how it could be that such a great man like Yitzchok made a mistake about Eisav?
Tag: Yitzchok Avinnu
Rav Avigdor Miller on Torah Love in Marriage
Q: You said about a year ago once that we should not believe in romance; that the Torah does not believe in romance. But it says Parshas Chayei Sara that Yitzchok Avinu married Rivka, and it says ויאהבה – that he loved her. Can you explain this?
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 Rivka, Our Model
Q:If the Torah is supposed to be teaching us lessons for all time, what do we learn from the encounter between Rivka and Eliezer? What I mean is that she appears to be doing everything that we here wouldn’t want our daughters to do. For example, first she talks to Eliezer, who’s a stranger – so it’s a young…
Rav Avigdor Miller on Akeidas Yitzchok
Q: Why did Avraham pray for Sedom but not for his son Yitzchok by the akeidah?
Rav Avigdor Miller on Marrying a Convert
Q:Based on what the Rav spoke about tonight, about how Avraham Avinu was careful to take a wife for Yitzchok only from his family and not from any of the converts he had made, would the Rav say that it’s proper to avoid being mishadeich with a giyores?
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 Human Sacrifice (March 1990)
Q: How could Hakodosh Boruch Hu ask Avrohom Avinu to sacrifice his son, Yitzchok? Isn’t that too extreme of a demand?