The wine was flowing, the cakes and cookies were in abundance seemingly available and begging to be tasted at every turn. They were on the kitchen table, coffee table, in the den, in the dining room and beyond. It was Shabbos lunch on July, 7, Parshat Balak. The guest seated to my immediate left was Rabbi David Rosen, a distinguished scholar, the product of England's finest Yeshivas, a student of the Mir in Jerusalem and the recipient of smicha from the very prominent Ponivich Yeshiva. Rabbi Rosen is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, the Israel representative who negotiated the opening of diplomatic relations between The Vatican and Israel and now works with the American Jewish Committee on inter-religious issues around the world.