Have Your Say!

Let's face it. Sometimes you agree with me, sometimes you disagree. Sometimes you agree but feel that you could have said it better. And sometimes you feel a real need to set me straight.

I have often been asked if it were possible to have questions and answers, perhaps even debate, on the issues that I raise during my sermons and in my articles - especially those that are perceived as "controversial".

There is now a way.

I have set up a blogging site that makes it very easy for me to place my writings, lectures and sermons on the internet. At the same time, it is a forum in which you can agree with, further develop or argue with my ideas and teaching.

We Jews have always believed that interactive learning is the way to go. It is after all the principle upon which the Jewish Education Day of the year - the Seder Night - is founded. The Internet gives us a way of learning interactively on a scale that was not previously possible.

For many of us the "silly season" presents a chance to do the kind of things that we don't have time for during the year. Here's your chance to share your thoughts on a variety of Jewish themes. I really hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity during this quieter, and more relaxed, time of the year. It will give us the opportunity of learning from each other.

For the time-being the URL of our new blogging site is http://www.southhead.blogspot.com. I have uploaded a number of articles that I have recently written. You can choose those of interest from the right-hand column of the webpage. At the bottom of each article, you will find the word "Comments". It's now up to you to agree with, debate against or expand upon the themes that I discourse on.

With best wishes for a happy and healthy summer,

Rabbi Benzion Milecki