Hal Miller

Shabbat Parashat Lech Lecha - 5786 Rabbi Hal Miller   And Avraham fell upon his face and laughed and he thought, to a man of a   hundred years shall there be born? And shall Sarah, a woman of ninety years,   give birth? [Bereishit 17:17] Here we see Avraham laughing when informed that Sarah would have a son. In verse 18:12, Sarah laughs, apparently over the same thing, using the feminine form of the same word as with Avraham. Why is Sarah chastised but not Avraham for this la

Shabbat Noach - 5786 Rabbi Hal Miller   And the earth had become corrupt before God, and the earth had become filled with robbery.   [Bereishit 6:11] Our verse gives the reasons God brought about the Flood, shachat and chamas. What are these, and why are they so important that the world had to be destroyed for them? Shachat could mean wastage, destruction or corruption. All three of those are serious flaws in the world. Certainly today there is massive waste of resource, much

Shabbat Parashat Bereishit - 578​6 Rabbi Hal Miller   ​Now any tree of the field ​was not yet on the earth and any herb of the field had...

Simchat Torah - 5786 V'Zot Ha'Beracha Rabbi Hal Miller At the end of his life, Yaakov gave blessings to each of his sons. At the end of...

Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot - 5786 Rabbi Hal Miller   He said, behold I seal a covenant, before your entire people I shall make 'niflaot'...

​​Sukkot - 5786 Rabbi Hal Miller   You shall dwell in booths for a seven-day period, every native in Israel shall dwell   in booths so...

Shabbat Parashat Haazinu - 5786 Rabbi Hal Miller   And He will say, "I shall hide My face from them and see what is their end,   for they...