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OPINION & COMMENT Condemn the Criminals Unequivocally and Hunt them Down London's Mayor Ken Livingstone, known for courting Moslem clerics and criticizing Jewish guards, cannot be accused of having been under undue Jewish influence in his views. Yet his evaluation of the attacks last Thursday in his city seems remarkably similar to our own. Proper Torah Chinuch In the first part, HaRav Diskin cited the example of the dedication of the Menorah by the Maccabeeim on the original Chanukah that showed that even if they could have used impure oil to light the Menorah since it was for communal purposes, since they were setting the foundation in chinuch of the Menorah they had to use pure oil in order to ensure that the subsequent avodas Hashem using it would be proper.
The Path a Person Chooses to Follow One of the obvious questions in this portion is the fact that Bilaam answered his donkey and carried on a discussion with it when it began talking. Not only did he maintain his wits in the face of this astonishing phenomenon, but he reacted as if it were the normal procedure, a dialogue between two equals in which he must keep his end up.
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