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...
Jonathan Sacks – The Angel who did not know he was an Angel The story of Joseph and his brothers, spread over...
Jonathan Sacks – No Longer Shall You Be Called Jacob One fact about this week’s parsha has long perplexed the commentators. After...
Jonathan Sacks – Laban the Aramean Vayetse 5780 The events narrated in this week’s parsha – Jacob’s flight to Laban, his stay...
Jonathan Sacks – Isaac and Esau Toldot 5780 It’s a haunting question. Why did Isaac love Esau? The verse says so explicitly:...
Jonathan Sacks – To Have a Why Chayei Sarah 5780 The name of our parsha seems to embody a paradox. It is...
Jonathan Sacks – Negative Capability I have written about the binding of Isaac many times in these studies, each time proposing an...
Jonathan Sacks – A Palace in Flames Lech Lecha 5780 Why Abraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read...
Jonathan Sacks – The Light in the Ark Amid all the drama of the impending flood and the destruction of almost all...
Jonathan Sacks – The Genesis of Love Bereishit 5780 In The Lonely Man of Faith, Rabbi Soloveitchik drew our attention to the...
Jonathan Sacks – “I Believe” An Introduction to 5780 When I was Chief Rabbi, I had wonderful friendships with other religious leaders,...
Jonathan Sacks – The Festival of Insecurity What exactly is a sukkah? What is it supposed to represent? The question is essential...
Jonathan Sacks – Let My Teaching Drop as Rain Ha’azinu 5780 In the glorious song with which Moses addresses the congregation, he...
WATCH – In Song, Discussion Yom Kippur The Meaning of Kol Nidrei IDF Chief Cantor Sings “Unetanneh Tokef” This video clip,...
Jonathan Sacks – The Torah as God’s Song Vayelech 5780 At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s...
Jonathan Sacks – Ten Ideas for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur As we approach Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the start of...
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