Rav Malinowitz ZTZ"L

I had actually given some thought to the question of writing vs. not writing about the elections in my column, since there were people [...]

The special parshah that we will be reading this week iy”H, parshas Shekalim, discusses collecting one half-shekel from each member of B’nei Yisrael who [...]

How does one determine one’s bar (or bas) mitzvah date if one is born in Adar of a ‘regular’ year, when the year where [...]

Depending on when you are reading this, you either have a chance to prepare properly for Purim Kattan (Friday) or to find out if [...]

Depending on when you are reading this, you either have a chance to prepare properly for Purim Kattan (Friday) or to find out if [...]

As we have seen last week, we are ‘forced’ to add another month to the ‘Jewish’ year every few years. (Actually, precise calculations would [...]

Good Rosh Chodesh Adar Alef (or Rishon) to you! And congratulations —we have been given an extra month of life! Yes, Hashem’s decree as [...]

We are trying to understand the apparently different levels of emunah. We have seen Bnei Yisrael described as having attained emunah at different stages [...]

We are in the midst of exploring the nature of “belief” in Hashem, focusing on the pesukim ascribing belief on the part of Bnei Yisrael [...]

“And Hashem saved Bnei Yisrael on that day from the Egyptians, and Bnei Yisrael saw the Egyptians dead at the edge of the sea. [...]

We have been learning about what we shall call a “two-track” system in Hashem’s ‘management’ of the world. A person can choose to do [...]

One of the more difficult hashkafic issues dealt with by ba’alei machshavah is that of Hashem punishing Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Although there was a [...]