Rav Malinowitz ZTZ"L

As we enter the final days of Chanukah, we will try to pull together the various ideas discussed here last week, and see if [...]

The above question appears in Gemara Shabbos (21B) and opens three blatt of discussion about virtually every nuance of the laws of Chanukah. The Gemara there [...]

We read this week about what happened to Dinah in the city of Shechem. But it is not at all clear in the written [...]

In the “real” world, events are swirling about us, frightening us and confusing us. Hurricanes, wars, missiles — what is happening, and why, and [...]

We saw in part one that the promise of the Jewish people’s survival throughout history was made to Avraham Avinu at the akeidah. It [...]

As Eliezer took Rivka from Aram to Eretz Yisrael, her brother and mother blessed her, saying, “Our sister, may you come to be thousands [...]

Last week, we examined a Gemara in Brachos which cites a passuk in Bereishis (15:8) in which Avraham Avinu calls HaShem “Master,” or L-rd. [...]

Let us critically examine the chronology of events in this week’s sedrah, Lech Lecha, and thus gain some insight into them. We are told [...]

Although we are about to read Parshas Noach, I feel compelled to write this column, which seems more fitting for a column for Parshas [...]

The reader of this column will please forgive me if this week’s installment seems a bit out-of- sorts; the powers that be have decreed [...]

We left last week wondering why Rambam’s unusually long philosophical discussion of bechirah is in Hilchos Teshuva and not in Hilchos Yesodei Torah where [...]

By the time you read this, Elul 5772 will be just about two-thirds gone. The obvious question you should be asking yourself is, “What [...]