Perke Abot - Perek A
As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“Derech eretz precedes the acquisition of Torah”
We traditionally study the Mishnayot of Perke Abot, The Ethics of the Fathers, during the weeks between Pesach and Shavuot. These Mishnayot are especially selected because of the instruction/mussar of our great Sages through [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
On the Seventh Day of Pesach we read from the Torah the Shirat Hayam, which tells of the stupendous miracle of the splitting of the Sea of Suf. We also read this portion each year in Parshat Beshalach, and we say it [Read more...]

Pesach/Passover
As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
The most basic idea of Passover is that Hashem took His Nation-Us out of 210 years of bondage in Egypt. As the pasuk states “Asher hotzetecha meeretz Mitzrayim.” However the pasuk continues “lehiyot lachem lelokim,” which means, in order that you will serve Me. [Read more...]

Shabbat Hagadol
As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
Hashem said to Moshe & Aharon to tell the Bnei Yisrael that on the 10th of Nissan each man from his family must take a lamb and hold it until the 14th of Nissan. On that afternoon they are to sacrifice the lamb [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“A plague of Leprosy.” (13:2)
As a preface to this important subject, we must note our dread of this fearsome malady and our sympathy for the man that experienced the symptoms of leprosy and the extreme hardships which he is forced to endure as a [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“That Hashem your G-d carried you just as a man carries his son.” (1:31)
This is a most significant declaration. Israel, and Israel alone is Hashem’s son, as He had declared: “My son My firstborn is Yisrael” (Shemot 4:22) and “Send forth My son” (ibid. [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“And you shall make yourselves holy and you shall become holy.” (11:44)
The purpose of refraining from the forbidden foods is that you should make yourself holy; And as a result of your efforts, you are assured by Hashem that you shall become holy. “A [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“To waive it as a wave-offering before Hashem.”
Said Rabbi Jochanan: He waives it forth and back to Him that owns the four winds, and he heaves it up and down to Him that owns the heavens and the earth. (Succah 37B) Thus the Mitzvah [Read more...]

Shabbat Zachor
As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“Remember that which Amalek did to you on the way when you went forth from Egypt.” (25:17)
After the downfall of Egypt, the Israelites felt secure and became somewhat self-reliant. This great generation certainly did not forget their Father and King, yet a [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
Rosh Chodesh Adar, Tov.
“When Adar enters joy is increased.”
In order to increase our simcha and pleasure in life we must examine the joys that are already in our possession. The gift of being able to see all of the wonderful and splendorous creations which [Read more...]