Teaching the Jewish People To Be Happy - The Legacy of Harav Avigdor Hakohen Miller Zt'l

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Avigdor Miller’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Kaf Zayin Nissan, the yard side of Hagoyim HaTzaddik Harav Avigdor HaKohen Miller Zechor Tzaddik Livracha. One of the great gifts HaKadosh Baruchu gave me is that when I came back from learning in Eretz Yisrael and I came back to America HaKadosh Baruchu stirred me to try to find someone to connect with uh gadol that I could learn from and grow from that I could learn from and grow from outside of the regular Yeshiva program. And the idea that somehow came to my mind is I need to go to Ocean Parkway near the Mir Yeshiva and listen and learn from Rav Avigdor Miller Zechor Tzaddik Livracha. It was not close to my house, it was about a 45-minute walk from Emmons 31st to Ocean Parkway near the Mir and for about 3 years years uh the last 3 years of Rav Miller's life I had this zechus to go on most Shabbosim to uh walk many times with my father, zol er gezunt zein and sometimes with my brother and we would go to Rav Miller before Mincha to hear his Ein Yaakov shiur to eat chal shudos with him and to hear his Gemara shiur then to daven Maariv together and hear Rav Miller make Havdalah. Also heard many, many of his uh recorded Also heard many, many of his uh recorded shiurim and the influence of Rav Miller continues to reverberate in my soul until this very day. And when I mentioned that this is something that we have to thank HaKadosh Baruchu for this was a lesson that Rav Miller taught. In Tehillim in the perek Ledavid Beshanoso Es Ta'amo Lifnei Avimelech Vayegareshehu Vayeilech Avorcha Es Hashem Bechol Eis. And Rav Miller explained as follows.

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1. 0:00Kaf Zayin Nissan, the yard side of Hagoyim HaTzaddik Harav Avigdor HaKohen Miller Zechor Tzaddik Livracha.…
2. 1:02years uh the last 3 years of Rav Miller's life I had this zechus to go…
3. 2:36Es Ta'amo, he changed his sanity, he acted insane. Lifnei Avimelech Vayegareshehu, Avimelech chased him out.…
4. 4:08katzei'hu se'arah v'chulai lei se'arah, it's only a small semblance of what appears to us as…
5. 5:41these delicious items. Hashem is trying to attract our attention cuz Hashem wants us to be…
6. 7:15who suffered most of his life he was happy and successful. And even during the suffering…
7. 8:16Olam. He said, "Lama Hare'osa Avdecha, why did you do so bad to me? Lama Lo…
8. 9:48Rav Miller taught that the 70 Zekainim were going to teach the Bnei Yisrael how to…
9. 11:20how to walk down the street and appreciate how to breathe. He taught how to appreciate…
10. 12:57I was zocheh to cry at the levaya of Rav Miller, and I am sure that…

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