On 20th Kislev (15th December), five days before Chanuka, my wife and I celebrated 28 years since first arriving on the shores of Sydney, our new home...writes Rabbi Chaim Ingram.
Rabbi Chaim Ingram: Dear Rabbi. Last week you called out the protest demonstrations in Australia, arising from the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as “irresponsible”.
Rabbi Chaim Ingram: There is but one G-D. There is not (as in certain foreign belief systems) a benign “Force of Good and a separate, demonic “Force of Evil”.
Dear Rabbi. I was intrigued to read the story last week about a US politician refusing to have a female reporter accompany him alone on his 15-hour ‘ride-a-thon’ campaign. Is society finally catching up with Halakha? Yours, H. J.
Rabbi Chaim Ingram: In Spirals of the Soul (p. 115) I cite the AriZa”l, R’ Isaac Luria, who famously declares that Yom Kippur, known in the Torah as Yom Kippurim, “is like Purim” – Yom K’Purim. I go on to suggest that the implications of this go far deeper than a play-on-words.
