With Wealth Comes Responsibility.

Jews Have Deep Respect For The Queen And The Royal Family. We Say A Prayer For Them Every Sabbath In Synagogue. We Recite A Special Blessing On Seeing The Queen.

We Know – It Has Been Measured In Many Experiments – That Children With Strong Impulse Control Grow To Be Better Adjusted, More Dependable, Achieve Higher Grades In School And College And Have More Success In Their Careers Than Others. Success Depends On The Ability To Delay Gratification, Which Is Precisely What A Consumerist Culture Undermines. At Every Stage, The Emphasis Is On The Instant Gratification Of Instinct. In The Words Of The Pop Group Queen, “i Want It All And I Want It Now.” A Whole Culture Is Being Infantilised.

If The History Of The Day Of Atonement Has Anything To Say To Us Now It Is: Never Relieve Individuals Of Moral Responsibility. The More We Have, The More We Grow.

Values Are Tapes We Play On The Walkman Of The Mind: Any Tune We Choose So Long As It Does Not Disturb Others.

Religion Creates Community, Community Creates Altruism And Altruism Turns Us Away From Self And Towards The Common Good... There Is Something About The Tenor Of Relationships Within A Religious Community That Makes It The Best Tutorial In Citizenship And Good Neighborliness.