Jonathan Sacks – Limits Shemini 5780 The story of Nadav and Avihu, Aharon’s two eldest sons who died on the day the...
Jonathan Sacks – What do Pesach and Hamilton have in common? Dear Friends, As we approach Pesach, and if you want a...
Jonathan Sacks – Left- and Right-Brain Judaism The institution of the Haftarah – reading a passage from the prophetic literature alongside the...
Watch: Rabbi Sacks on Vayikra and the Coronavirus Pandemic Here is a short D’var Torah from Rabbi Sacks on what we can...
Jonathan Sacks – The Prophetic View of Sacrifice Sacrifices, the subject of this week’s parsha, were central to the religious life of...
Jonathan Sacks – Communities and Crowds & Video-Coronavirus Melanie Reid is a journalist who writes a regular column for The (London) Times....
Jonathan Sacks – Moses Annuls a Vow Kol Nidre, the prayer said at the beginning of Yom Kippur, is an enigma wrapped...
Jonathan Sacks – The Therapeutic Joy of Purim There’s something very strange about Purim. It is notably a festival of joy, “Yamei...
Jonathan Sacks – Dressing to Impress Tetzaveh, with its elaborate description of the “sacred vestments” which the Priests and the High Priest...
Jonathan Sacks – What Do We Receive When We Give? The Lord spoke to Moshe, saying, “Tell the Israelites to take an...
Jonathan Sacks – We will do and we will hear Two words we read towards the end of our parsha – na’aseh ve-nishma,...
Jonathan Sacks – The Universal and the Particular The quintessential Jewish expression of thanks, gratitude and acknowledgment is Baruch Hashem, meaning “Thank God,”...
Jonathan Sacks – Crossing the Sea Our parsha begins with an apparently simple proposition: When Pharaoh let the people go, God did...
Jonathan Sacks – Why Storytelling Is Essential to Jews and Judaism Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the...
Jonathan Sacks – “Evil happens when people let it happen.. “Evil happens when people let it happen, and our best defence against it...
Jonathan Sacks – The Weighing of the Heart In this week’s parsha, before even the first plague has struck Egypt, God tells...
Jonathan Sacks – Faith in the Future Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by the story of...
Jonathan Sacks – Family, Faith and Freedom If you want to understand what a book is about, look carefully at how it...
Jonathan Sacks – The Future of the Past In our parsha, Joseph does something unusual. Revealing himself to his brothers, fully aware...
Jonathan Sacks – Joseph and the Risks of Power Mikketz represents the most sudden and radical transformation in the Torah. Joseph, in...
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