A best-seller, but do we buy it?

We’re into the happy days of the holiday period and none is more of a celebration then Simchat Torah. In my home town of Sydney the youth are out in force, not for a pub crawl, instead we go shul hopping. From shul to shul drinking through the Rabbis sneaky whiskey...

Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Most of us live in towns or cities. We divide our time between houses, offices, libraries, cars, buses and trains. Everything is either moving, or is designed to give an air of complete immovability – total permanence. This house is here, and will always be here and...

Yom Kippur: What is repentance?

As the holiest day of the year for Jews, Yom Kippur allows Hashem to decide our fate as human beings and gives us the chance to repent for any wrongdoings over the past year. While fasting for 25 hours bears huge significance for some, it may be disputed that the act...

I make the rules

Who makes the rules that we try so hard to abide by? Is it some powerful human somewhere in the world, or perhaps some divine creature in the sky? Irrelevant of the answer and irrelevant of our thoughts Please can someone show me where I can find these systematic...

Rosh Hashannah Reflections

Shalom Chaverim. It’s that time of year again when the men are rummaging through their cupboards and dusting off their tallis bags, the mothers are preparing their outfits for the community to see, the teenagers are baffled that they have to go to shul post Bnei...

Parshat Nitzavim

Shalom Chaverim, This week in the epic and enthralling tale of the Jews in exile we have left our protagonists in a battle of faith and forgiveness. Parshat Nitzavim is a retelling of the story of the covenant with the Jews and Mt Sinai, through the eyes of Moshe. In...