As Heard from Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
Preparing For Yom Hadeen/Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana is the Yom Hadeen, a day of danger, of great peril. One more Mitzvah or one less sin could tip the scales in our favor. If you are a ‘benoni’, if your mitzvoth and sins balance [Read more...]

As Heard from Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“Instead of that (or because) you did not serve Hashem your G-d in joy and in merry heart from abundance in everything.” (28:47)
“And you shall serve your enemies…in nakedness and in lack of everything.” (28:48)
The word ‘Tachat’ (”instead of”) implies something more [Read more...]

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
“And they afflicted us and they put upon us hard labor.” (26:6)
“And we cried out to Hashem the G-d of our fathers and He heard our voice…and Hashem took us out of Egypt.” (26:7)
One reason for the affliction was to induce them to [Read more...]