Around 120 people attended the launch of Rabbi Chaim Ingram’s fifth book Lattices of Love on Jewish prayer. Over 150 books were sold at the Sydney event. The sole remaining copy of Rabbi Ingram’s first book Fragments Of The Hammer was auctioned and fetched $1,500 for the Jewish communities of Ukraine.
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A Post-Pesach Thought from Rabbi Chaim Ingram OAM
Presently the British Royal Family is undergoing one of its periodic mini-crises. Amid the uncomfortable spotlight resting upon the relationship between the Sussexes and the other senior Royals, another worst-kept royal secret was recently revealed in the popular press, namely that the Queen is “constantly exasperated” and “puzzled” by the behaviour of her first-born son, Prince Charles, heir apparent.
It got me thinking:
Do parents expect more from their firstborns than their other children?
I believe they do. And I wonder what the universe’s First Parent feels about His firstborn child,
A New Essay by Rabbi Chaim Ingram OAM
The Fifth Child
In recent years, it has been customary to speak at the Pesach Seder of a “fifth child” in addition to the four – wise, wayward, simple and silent – which the Hagada depicts. This fifth child is usually identified as the one who isn’t there because s/he has opted out of the Jewish community and/or Jewish life. But there may be other reasons why s/he isn’t there. S/he may be unwell, incapacitated, hospitalised.
Or – as I say at my
seder often – s/he may be an unsung hero of our people on emergency patrol duty for the IDF or on nursing roster in the ICU ward at Sha’are Zedek or a senior Mossad agent engaged in a life-or-death operation that nobody knows about. These “fifth children” deserve our acknowledgement, our prayers, our acclaim.