Rav Malinowitz ZTZ"L

One of the stranger parshiyos in the Torah certainly has to be one that we read in a section of this week’s Torah leining, that [...]

Last week’s cliffhanger closing: “Where is the flawed reasoning? Why does this sin become the most primal cause of the churban?” The Chafetz Chaim explains [...]

Continuing the theme of being in tandem with the shiva d’nechemta, the seven special haftaras which comfort Bnei Yisrael in the aftermath of the churban, [...]

This being the second Shabbos of the shiva d’nechemta, the seven weeks of Hashem’s consoling us, it is fitting that we continue to talk [...]

That’s Friday, for those of you who are calendar-challenged. And if you are wondering why we are celebrating anything so close to Tisha B’Av, [...]

As we contemplate the ninth (and the tenth) of Av, we endeavor to feel the losses we have talked about in this column during [...]

Let us try to achieve what we talked about in last week’s column. The first idea is remembering, perceiving, and feeling the tazros of [...]

The “Three Week” period, a.k.a. Bein Hametzarim, has various minhagim concerning how we are to exhibit our pain and anguish over the churban Beis [...]

Last week, we saw that there can be two very different goals when a miracle occurs. One is when natural occurrences do not seem to [...]

The sedra of Chukas is full of action: parah adumah, the death of Miriam, mei merivah, the death of Aharon Hakohen, war with Amalek, the [...]

The sedras of Shelach and Korach, read in the Torah last week and this week, are pretty much back-to-back unmitigated disasters for the Jewish [...]

When the meraglim returned from Eretz Yisrael with their report, their first detrimental declaration was, “However, the people who dwell in the Land are [...]