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Excellent rabbi

I WAS surprised at last week's very distasteful headline - Don't bother with rabbi, see a doctor - aimed, albeit indirectly, at Rabbi Chaim Kanterovitz.

How can any Jew possibly advise a religious person not to consult their rabbi? The first question, when in doubt, is "What does the Torah say?".

The Torah contains the entire gamut of Jewish life (Ethics, Chapter 5.25). The answer I would have given, based on the Torah, would have been: Consult your doctor. No two cases, however, are alike. The example that your correspondent Dr Sonia Goldrein gave, plus Dr Goldrein's remark "who will pay for it?" regarding the third Bet Hamikdosh informs readers that the good doctor is in need of a rabbi.

I wish to recommend an excellent one - his name is Rabbi Chaim Kanterovitz.

RABBI Leonard Book,
St Annes on Sea,
Lancs.

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