As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“And you shall prostrate yourself before Hashem your G-D.” (26:10)
‘Vehishtahaveta’, “You should make yourself low.” Why “should you make yourself low” (low down to the earth)? We express our gratitude to Hashem by making ourselves low, for we are humbled before Him because we [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he does not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.” (21:20)
Three stages of deterioration are enumerated: (1) First: Rebelliousness, (2) failure to be instructed and (3) pursuit of unnecessary diversions. In some [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“You shall be wholehearted with Hashem your G-d.” (18:13)
Tamim means “complete” or “perfect.” Rabbenu Yonah (Shaare Teshuva 3:17) explains that perfection in Trust in Hashem (Bitachon) is here commanded. This comes to exclude the practices enumerated in the preceding verses (18:9-12). These practices [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“In order to cause you to know that not by bread alone does man live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of Hashem does a man live.” (8:3)
If this lesson was the purpose of the forty years of Mann which deprived [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“You are children of Hashem your G-d.” (14:1)
(This Pasuk is referring to making a wound into ones skin as a sign of mourning as the idolaters do.)
This is one of the most thunderous declarations in Hashems Torah. You, and you alone, are Hashem’s children. [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“On the door-posts of your house and of your gates.” (6:9)
To be always mindful that Hashem has given the house to you. The house is His property, and you are only tenants. Every room is adorned with Mezuzot to remind us of the Owner, [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“And you spoke up and said: We have sinned to Hashem. We shall go up and fight, as all that Hashem commanded us.” (1:41)
“And Hashem said to me, say to them, you shall not go up.” (1:42)
Here we see a remarkable lesson. The people [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“For I Hashem dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel.” (35:34)
This declaration is the most stupendous statement, after Bereshit 1:1, in the entire Scriptures. The Creator of the Universe has chosen to rest His Presence forever among the sons of Israel, who [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“Take for you Yehoshua ben Nun, a man in whom there is spirit.” (27:8)
Here the word Ruach (spirit) denotes character traits and righteous wisdom. “A spirit of jealousy,” (Bamidbar 5:14) “a spirit of wisdom,” (Devarim 34:9) “of sorrowful spirit.” (I Shemuel 1:15) Thus the [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“The speech of him that hears the words of G-d and knows the knowledge of the Most High.” (24:16)
The expression “Most High” (Elyon) means that Bileam was sent to reveal that which other prophets did not reveal, and
even Moshe was unwilling to reveal. The [Read more...]