Laibl's Blog • October 2025
A Sukkah Jew
I am a Sukkah Jew. In whatever land and whichever century I reside, I will be a temporary resident living in a temporary dwelling – a Sukkah. The roof over…
Laibl's Blog • October 2025
Compassion for Gaza Innocents
We just asked G-d on Yom Kippur to have ‘rachmonus’ (compassion – ‘rachamim’) for us. But the ‘spiritual laws of reciprocity’ demand that we first show ‘rachmonus’ in our everyday…
Laibl's Blog • September 2025
Values or Machetes
Several decades ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said that the future generations’ wellbeing depended on teaching kids values at school. He urged all schools to start off the day with a…
Laibl's Blog • September 2025
Actions, Not Words
How to rebut a world that is dead-set on being ‘noble’ at your expense? Especially when its ‘noble’ intent is totally flawed? And when it becomes a cause-celebre throughout the…
Laibl's Blog • August 2025
Monkey Leadership
Vignette One An interview with one of Australia’s leading protectors of its citizenry, Mr. Backo Burqu Interviewer: Mr Backo Burqu, we understand that President Trump is planning to come and…
Laibl's Blog • August 2025
What Returns on Investment?
I am shocked by the docile, lay-down, defeatist attitude we are taking to the societal challenges here in Australia. Plenty of analyses by the Jewish communal ‘commentators’, but very little…
Laibl's Blog • July 2025
Are you Running Scared?
Should we be scared? No! Should we be thinking of selling up? No! Should we be rushing to stock up on more Prozac, Lexapro or SSRI’s? No! The obvious parallel…
Laibl's Blog • July 2025
Life’s 42 Journeys
Life’s a journey. A cliché? Perhaps. But an apt metaphor, nevertheless. Especially the 42 journeys that the Jewish people traversed from Egypt to Israel. Which happens to be the concluding…
Laibl's Blog • July 2025
Profiling a Spiritgrower
Spiritgrow member, I am proud of you. You aren’t the typical 21st century Jew. It’s likely that your Jewish background has been somewhat limited, if not scanty. Yet you are…
Laibl's Blog • July 2025
The New World
The world is spinning. Change is accelerating, spinning faster and faster. Some of it is painful. Some of it is exciting. All of it is baffling. Our responses are a…
Laibl's Blog • July 2025
Belief in Ancient Waze
What do you believe in? Do you believe that having family and friends is important? You don’t have to believe that because you know that. Do you believe that helping…
Laibl's Blog • June 2025
The Home versus the Street
Society is being increasingly characterised by youthful anti-authoritarianism. Some younger people, including students, but also hoodlums, troublemakers, ‘professional’ demonstrators’, and far left political extremists, have taken to the streets. This…
Laibl's Blog • June 2025
Spiritual Meets Physical
There is an impression that people who are spiritual must practice non-violence The example of Mahatma Gandhi is often cited. But the British Empire was sensitive to public shame. Not…
Laibl's Blog • June 2025
Live With the Times!
I happen to be in California. Just had a deja vu – riots in the streets of Los Angeles. Well organised, destructive, and heavily financed. Who are the rioters? They…