Weekly “Chadash” Articles from Rav Malinowitz ZTZ”L

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 [...]

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 [...]