For Heavens Sake

Rabbi Cyril Harris has had a huge impact on Jewish life wherever he had ministered to Orthodox Jewry. He is considered among the most influential Jews in Rabbinical circles. This diary presents an insightful look at Jewish life in all its many forms. It reflects his critical, questioning mind at every turn, and is imbued throughout with his amused regard for the world at large and his wide ranging flock in particular. Rabbi Harris has played an important role in the new, transforming and reforming South Africa. He has given a rabbinic sanction to the principles of political activism that opposed apartheid and combined to side with the forces of change for a non-racial democracy