Rav Avigdor Miller on Davening for the Death of a Rasha Q: Should we have in mind the Supreme Court in Israel and other Jewish reshaim when we say the bracha of ולמלשינים? Better they should do teshuva, no? A: Let me explain something here. In that tefillah ולמלשינים אל תהי תקוה, we see something that's not found anywhere else. It says three times meheirah, meheirah and kerega; quickly, quickly and immediately. We're more in a hurry for this more than for Moshiach to come. To get rid of th

Rav Avigdor Miller on Rebellious Jews Q: Is Hashem also Elokei Yisroel of the assimilated Jews? A: Now you must know that Yisroel means only those who are ma’aminim baHashem, ma’aminim in Matan Torah, ma’aminim in briyas ha’olam yesh me’ayin. Although there’s a maamar that says ישראל אף על פי שחטא ישראל הוא, it doesn’t mean Yisroel who’s an apikores. No. שחטא means he sinned; let’s say there’s a Yisroel who did certain sins, but he’s a Jew who believes in everything. And therefore he’s a Y

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How does one bring himself to really feel the words of Emunah that his mouth says? A man went to a physician because of a certain ailment, and the physician gave him a medicine. After a week, the man came back and said the medicine didn't work. So the physician said, "You have to increase the dose." When people say words of Emunah and they do not feel the conviction of the Emunah, the answer is they're not saying it enough. Because even though you say ten times, v'ahavta es Hashem Elokecho b'c

Rav Avigdor Miller on Enthusiasm Over Basketball Q: What is the Rav’s opinion about a father who takes his children to an arena to watch basketball games or even just to follow the team’s progress? A: What’s our opinion about taking children to a basketball game? He’s taking children and teaching them to be dumbbells. Because the basketball game is nothing but stupidity. It’s a very great non-approval of the gentiles when you see a newspaper heading. Headlines: The Knicks gained this man a

Rav Avigdor Miller on Being Mechanech Your Wife and Children Q: What should a man do if he’s interested in becoming more observant and his wife is not? A: And the answer is, like a rebbe once told me, דבר תורה מעות קונה – with money you can get everything. Bring her a gift and tell her he’d like to do this-and-this. Little by little you can bribe her into doing things. בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה – you can do war, do battle, with strategy. Everything can be accomplished if you’re careful. You d

Rav Avigdor Miller on Being Cruel in Order to Learn Torah Q: Why does somebody have to make himself an achzari on bnei beiso to become great in Torah? A: When it says a person should be cruel to his family in order to become great in Torah it means this: This man could have spent his life supplying his family with luxuries. A goimel chesed. He took an extra job in order to buy his children more toys and give his wife more expensive clothing. No, he has to be achzari. In order for him to ma

Rav Avigdor Miller on Law and Order Q: What should we learn from the Iranian crisis, where the Shah was overthrown and now there’s anarchy? A: What should we learn from the Iranian crisis? Many things. I’ll just take at random one thing. Maybe it’s irrelevant, but it’s at least one lesson. And that is, people don’t know how lucky they are when they have something. The Shah was a blessing for Persia because there was order. People don’t realize that the Persians, the Iranians, are a wild pe

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Rav Avigdor Miller on Light-Minded Women Q: How is the statement nashim daatan kalos, that women have light minds, explained? A: And the answer is that women are not stubborn. And it’s a wonder, it’s a miracle that they’re not. Because why should she marry you? You propose to her – what do you have to offer? Many times it’s a miracle that any man gets married. You look at his face and listen to him talk, and you’re surprised that he got married. But he found some foolish girl who took him.

Yisroel, and even here in America, where we have such problems that are trying to destroy us, is it a good thing that among the frumeh we find even machlokes now? Question. About the dissensions among the frumeh; machlokes among the frumeh. There are two kinds. Sometimes it is caused by wrong reactions, as a yielding to the yetzer hora, when frum people are willing to see faults in other frum people. Let's say people from one community, let's say Lakewood people, would find chesronos in Brookl

Rav Avigdor Miller on Improving the Perfect World Q: Have doctors, have physicians, has the medical profession not improved things? A: And the answer is, they haven’t improved anything. I’ll explain that to you. But don’t be in a hurry to run away though. Listen to what I’m saying. Mankind was perfect from the beginning. According to the original ecology, the cooperation of all the forces of nature made life the happiest and the best. And nobody took aspirants. Nobody needed vitamins. And

Rav Avigdor Miller on Bringing the Geulah with Unity Q: How can we in this generation become so perfect enough that we should merit the geulah shleimah? A: Now we have to understand that this question – what to do in order to be zocheh to the geulah has been treated in our seforim at length. There are a number of things to do, but one thing is very clear. All the frum Jews have to fulfill one condition, וקבצנו יחד. We have to be together. And Hakodosh Boruch Hu made a miracle today. Sittin

Rav Avigdor Miller on the Benefit of Earthquakes Q: What’s the benefit of earthquakes? A: I’ll ask a question. If you had eaten a big meal and it generated a lot of gas, so sometimes when you’re polite company, you feel that you’re bursting. You have to go someplace where you can relieve the pressure. Now what’s the benefit of that? The earth, you have to know, is building up pressure. And it must be relieved. An earthquake is going to save us from a bigger catastrophe that’s lying in stor

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Rav Avigdor Miller on the Surprise of Moshiach Q: What is meant by מצמיח ישועה? A: It says צמח דוד עבדך – the sprout. Tzemach means something that comes out of the earth suddenly. The time will come when Moshiach will come. It was described as follows: Rabbi Chaim Brisker said, I’ll be sitting in my house and looking in the Gemara. His wife would say, “Chaim, there’s a noise outside.” So he'll say, “Go out and see what it’s all about.” She goes out in the street, she says, “Chaim, you know

Why aren't Goyim told about Olam Haba? In order they should be able to improve their ways? That's your question? And the answer is they know so much about it that they're telling us to improve our ways, that we should get Olam Haba like they get. Don't you know that? The Goyim are specialists on Olam Haba, because they don't have Olam Hazeh. If you look at it — of course you wouldn't look — but in the New Testament, it's all Olam Haba business. He promises anybody who signs up and believes in

Rav Avigdor Miller on Cavemen and Dinosaurs Q: How does the age of the cavemen and the dinosaurs fit in with Torah? A: And the answer is, how does the age of the computers fit in with the Torah? Any contradiction? No. Same is just like computers are contemporary with us, so were cavemen contemporary with dinosaurs. Only that today we are contemporary with computers, and yesterday people were contemporary with dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are quite recent. And the fact is, if you want to spend

Rav Avigdor Miller on Pirkei Avos and Dale Carnegie Q: Would you recommend a Dale Carnegie course? A: Would I recommend a course that teaches the Dale Carnegie system for dealing with people and for successful living? I don’t recommend anything that’s not in Torah. If you want to know what I recommend, I would recommend a Pirkei Avos course. However, this I’m going to tell you. That it’s a great pity that people are not in the frame of mind to appreciate Pirkei Avos. Some people, after rea

Rav Avigdor Miller on Opening the Mechitzah Q: When this lecture goes on, so the curtain on the top half of the ezras noshim is opened up. Is that al pi hahalacha? A: And the answer is that according to my pshat it is. It could be somebody will say no but according to my pshat it is. Because we have a mechitzah ten tefachim high, so that’s a purpose of the mechitzah, there shouldn’t be any mixing. Fine. They’re seated separately, we are seated separately. We have a mechitza between us, eve

Rav Avigdor Miller on Tefillah and Korbanos Q: What’s the pshat that tefillah is instead of korbanos? A: The truth is tefillah and korbanos always were simultaneous. At the same time there were korbanos, there was tefillah too. It’s only when you had no more korbanos, so we considered tefillah as a substitute, but not because tefillah was made instead of korbanos. No. For instance, tefillas shachris, you say, is like an analogy to korban Tomid shel shachar. But it wasn’t made instead of th

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Rav Avigdor Miller on Shiva Assar B'Tamuz Q: What is Shiva Assar b’Tammuz supposed to teach us? A: Shiva Assar b’Tammuz comes to teach a number of things. One of the things is, we have to look back על כל מחמדנו שהיה לנו בימי קדם all the wonderful things we had in the days of old but we didn’t appreciate them as long as we had them. That’s a universal failing in human beings. They don’t appreciate fully what they have. I'm sure they appreciate it to some extent but the glory of a Jewish nat

Rav Avigdor Miller on Compartments in the Mind Q: Is it right to serve Hashem b’simcha when other people are suffering tzaros? A: A man must have the ability to departmentalize his mind. I’ll give you an example. Just recently we had Tisha B’Av. We sat on the ground and we wept for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. We wept al beis Yisroel v’al am Hashem shenaflu b’charev. Soon after that came Chamisha Asar B’Av and we didn’t say tachanun. לא היה ימים טובים לישראל כחמשה עשר באב – There

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Rav Avigdor Miller on Despising the Insane Q: You said before that the world is insane and that we should despise them. But does that mean we should despise all goyim? Aren’t there goyim that shouldn’t be despised? A: Now we’re not just despising goyim. We’re despising everybody; not just goyim. We’re despising Jews too. We’re not eclectic. We’re not chauvinists. We’re despising the whole insane world. Here’s a television shomer Shabbos Jew. Shomer Shabbos but he has a TV. How could it be,

Why don't Rabbonim talk more about honesty in business? And the answer is... EVERY DAY a Jew is getting this lesson. A little boy goes to the Yeshiva, and he learns arba avos nezikim. Once a man asked me, "Why is my grandson learning law? Is he going to be a lawyer?" All the halachos of nezikim. I'll tell you what Reb Yisroel Salanter answered. Reb Yisroel Salanter said, "When you grow up, and you don't know the responsibility of your fellow man's money, then it's already too late; you'll neve

Rav Avigdor Miller on Heat in the Summer Q: How could we appreciate the hot and humid weather outside? A: Boruch Hashem that we have such weather! You’re going to eat apples all winter because of this weather. You’re going to eat latkes and pizza and challos all winter because of the wheat that’s growing in this weather. Without this weather, you couldn’t have anything. Let’s say you’re walking in the kitchen. “It’s very hot in here,” you say to your wife. So your wife says, “Well, I’m bak

Rav Avigdor Miller on Heicha Kedusha Q: Why do some yeshivahs today still daven mincha with heicha kedusha even in situations where they don’t learn immediately afterwards, so it’s not for the reason of bittul Torah? A: Why do some yeshivahs make a heicha kedusha? In some places they do that; that was a minhag of the yeshivahs in Europe and so they follow the minhag hayeshivos. It’s something. Don’t think the yeshivah is such a small place, an unimportant place. A yeshivah is a very import

Rav Avigdor Miller on the Yeshivah Man's Vacation Q: How should a yeshivah man spend his summer bein hazmanim, his vacation time? A: How should a yeshivah man spend his so-called vacation time? The best thing is to review constantly all that he learned in the winter and spring season because הלומד ואינו חוזר – if you learn and don't review, כזורע ואינו קוצר – it's like planting a harvest and never coming to harvest the grain (Sanhedrin 99a). If you plant a field of wheat and you never come

Rav Avigdor Miller on Justifying Torah to The Wicked Q: There has been pressure put on the Rabbinate in Medinas Yisroel by secular politicians to permit mamzerim to marry into Jewish people. They don’t understand why it should be otherwise. A: So what’s your question? Q: The question is should we try to present it in such a way to make it acceptable or understandable to these secularists? A: So here is what my rejoinder is. A man married a woman who was famous as a girl of rare beauty

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