Weekly “Chadash” Articles from Rav Malinowitz ZTZ”L

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 [...]

We left off last week’s column trying to decipher the nature of the korbanos that the nesi’im brought, with which they inaugurated the Mizbeach at the [...]

We read in this week’s sedra of the inauguration of the Mizbeach (the Altar) which lasted for twelve days, with special korbanos being brought [...]

One of the more fundamental principles concerning Torah and mitzvos is stated in the first Rashi in Parshas Bechukosai. Rashi, referring to the seeming redundancy [...]

The sedra this week famously begins, “If you follow my decrees, and observe my commandments and perform them, then I will produce your rains [...]

We are in the middle of sefiras ha’omer, right? Well, we are also in the middle of a column exploring what those very words [...]

This week’s Torah-reading takes us on a trip around-the-Jewish-year-in-Festivals. And one of the stops is the korban minchah (grain offering) brought on the sixteenth [...]