As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“If you shall walk in My statutes and you shall guard My commandments.” (26:3)
Included in this verse is also the Study of the Torah (Sifra). Actually, “the study of the Torah is as (important as) all of them” (Peah 1:1). “The Holy One blessed [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“For they are My servants that I brought forth from the land of Egypt.” 25:42
This verse expresses displeasure at the bondage of an Israelite to anyone other than to Hashem. Even if the motivation was that “I love my master” (Shemot 21:5). Hashem considers [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“And you shall proclaim on this self-same day, a holy convocation it should be to you.” (23:21)
A most unexpected phenomenon we see here, the Giving of the Torah is not mentioned. The day is called “the Festival of Reaping” (Shemot 23:16) and “the day [Read more...]

As Heard From Rabbi Avigdor Miller ZT”L
“You shall be holy for I Hashem Your G-d am holy.” (19:2)
Fundamentally this means: ‘Think as I Think.’ The most important part of the personality is the mind. Therefore we can most effectively emulate the holiness of Hashem by means of emulating His thoughts. [Read more...]

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...]

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...]