Torah

This email is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: ; QUESTION: ;Are we permitted to walk on Kings Highway because of lack of ;tznius? ; Wherever we walk on the streets toda...

Shacharis. Shabbos morning. I'm not really feeling it. My mind wanders... before I know it, I'm holding by birchos krias sh'ma which speaks of the holy angels who praise Hashem..." It dawns on me, hey, does Hashem really need me? What am I, one small creature in a huge universe with billions of p...

Today is rosh chodesh ;Sivan and today is my 90th day of my journey. I can't believe this.I am sitting here by my computer in a trance.Wow! Did I really accomplish 90 days! Yup, I DID! With thanks to H' and too many other ppl to mention who all helped me pull thru. No, it wasn't an easy journey a...

V'dishnu ess hamizbei'ach, And they shall remove the ashes from the Mizbei'ach ;(7:14)While traveling in the desert, all the keilim of the Mishkan were covered with designated cloth coverings. The mizbeiach was covered with a covering of purple/indigo died wool. The fire that had decended from He...

Rav Chaim Shmulevitz says in Sichos Mussar that we can learn a tremendous lesson from the fact that the Levi'im were counted separately. Rashi says (1:49) that H'shm foresaw that He would decree death against the 20- to 60-year-olds that were counted in this week's parsha and He wanted to count t...

; Sexual Desire = 99% Triggers, 1% Pleasure ;Rebbe Nachman said: "The Yetzer Hara's real name is dimyon (imagination)" ; It's all ;bilbulim ;and hot air! Don't be FOOLED ;

Ki im l'sh'eiro hakarov eilav.Ein sh'eiro ella ishto.(Rashi)The Torah is teaching us that a wife ideally should be the CLOSEST person to ourselves! ;Even closer than our fathers & mothers! **** V'ish ki yochal kodesh bishgaga... ;V'hisiu osam avon ashma b'achlam ess kadsheihem.(22:16)The ;Ohr...

I saw a mind blowing Chazal today that can provide tremendous chizzuk to all of us that are struggling or that fell in the past. The Torah tells us that while a Cohen is permitted to marry a widow, a Cohen Gadol, however, is forbidden. The question is why. I saw brought down this week, that the T...

Listen to a short message of Chizuk regarding Pesach Sheini (3.5 min).

; It is brought down in many places, especially in the chassidish sefarim, that a person needs friends to help him in avodas Hashem. ; Chazal say: ;כל הגדול מחבירו יצרו גדול ממנו. ; The Beis Aharon of Karlin read this in the following way: כל הגדול - מחבירו - Whoever is great, it's from his fri...