Rabbi Miller Said... (Daily Blog)
A Prerequisite to Thanking Hashem
July 16th, 2025
You cannot even have an artificial attitude of thanks towards Hashem unless you have a natural behavior pattern of thanking people. If you acquire that behavior pattern, you will thank your mother or your wife for making your meals, you will thank your father for buying you clothing, and you will thank your Rebbe for teaching you Torah. You can then use this attitude in expressing your gratitude to Hashem. — Ohr Avigdor Shaar Avodas Elokim
What Is the Advantage of Praying When Things Are Good?
July 15th, 2025
Pray for a healthy heart when you don't even know you have a heart, when it's functioning so perfectly, you're not aware that it's there. If you do that, then you are calling out to Hashem b'emes (in truth) — that's the best heart medicine. — Prayer in Prosperity #60
How Does One Reach Perfection?
July 14th, 2025
We're put in this world to be formed into something beautiful. And so a pummel here... and a knock there.... and a punch here. We think it's all a waste. We would like to get along without it, but that's what is making us, it's rounding us out, it's smoothing out our rough places. It's making us into what we are supposed to become. Part of our being in this world is involuntary perfection. — Evil of Confusion #6
How Does One Acquire Fear of Hashem?
July 13th, 2025
When a person absorbs the knowledge that Hashem is in control of everything, he will have achieved yiras (fear of) Hashem. He will know that "there is nothing besides Him," and he will be rewarded with Hashem's favor. — Ohr Avigdor Shaar Habechinah
Emulating the Righteous
July 11th, 2025
The author of the Mesillas Yesharim (Path of the Just) says we have to ask ourselves the following question: What did our forefathers do that Hashem chose them? What did Abraham Avinu (our father) do? What did Yitzchak do? What did Yosef do that Hashem loved him so greatly? We have to spend time every day studying that. When we finally discover it, we have to say, "I also want to do the same."— Shir Hashirim #451
The Torah's Enduring Validity
July 10th, 2025
The authenticity of the Hebrew Scriptures is attested by the entire Jewish nation from the beginning until the time of the "Reformers." Not once did any Jew arise to challenge the Torah of Moses on the basis of validity. The prophets castigated the sinners for every kind of misdeed, but not once is anyone criticized for disbelief in the Torah. Thus, the millions of Israel testified to the truth of the Torah from the beginning.— Awake, My Glory
What Effect Should Torah Study Have On You?
July 9th, 2025
The Torah is meant to make a person happy. "V'tov lach l'olam haba" — no question about being happy in the World to Come. "Ashrecha b'olam hazeh," and even in olam hazeh (this world), when you learn Torah, it helps you to be happy in this world. If it doesn't, you're missing something from your Torah.— Bringing Up Children
The Need for Constant Torah Reflection
July 8th, 2025
Because of the harmful influence of our environment, one dose of hashkafah (Torah philosophy) is never enough. Even the best of us must constantly refresh our minds and return to the same logical arguments to think them through again and again. — Ohr Avigdor Shaar Habechinah
What Does the Mezuzah Ask You?
July 6th, 2025
The mezuzah is like the yeshiva mashgiach (supervisor) asking the boys going out the door, "Where are you going?" You have to be mindful of your function as a student of Torah because you are one of the members of the mamleches kohanim, the nation of priests.— Preface to Shabbos #439
The Testimony of Creation
July 4th, 2025
Each morning we say, “He makes peace and creates everything.” Why are we associating peace with the creation of the world? Hashem created the world so that all of its forces are at peace. If they were to clash and collide with each other, the world could not exist. Instead, Hashem makes peace between everything in the world, and all His creations cooperate for His purpose.— Ohr Avigdor Hakdama