Jonathan Sacks – A Stiff-Necked People Ki Tissa It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere forty...
Jonathan Sacks – A Portable Home The parsha of Terumah describes the construction of the Tabernacle, the first collective house of worship in the history of...
Jonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger There are commands that leap off the page by their sheer moral power. So it is...
Jonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of...
Jonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation...
Jonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural? The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite...
Jonathan Sacks – Against their gods The ninth plague – darkness – comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is...
Jonathan Sacks – The God Who Acts in History The Israelites were at their lowest ebb. They had been enslaved. A decree...
Jonathan Sacks – The Light at the Heart of Darkness She is one of the most unexpected heroes of the Hebrew Bible....
Jonathan Sacks – The Future of the Past The scene that brings the book of Genesis to a close is intensely significant....
Jonathan Sacks – Does My Father Love Me? It is one of the great questions we naturally ask each time we read...
Jonathan Sacks – The Universal and the Particular The story of Joseph is one of those rare narratives in Tanach in which...
Jonathan Sacks – Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope The deception has taken place. Joseph has been sold into slavery. His brothers dipped his...
Jonathan Sacks – Physical Fear, Moral Distress Twenty-two years have passed since Jacob fled his brother, penniless and alone; twenty-two years have...
Jonathan Sacks – When the ‘I’ is Silent This week’s parsha relates a powerful, primal vision of prayer: Jacob, alone and far from home,...
Jonathan Sacks – The Courage of Persistence There is a strange passage in the life of Isaac, ominous in its foreshadowing of...
Jonathan Sacks – On Judaism and Islam The language of the Torah is, in Erich Auerbach’s famous phrase, “fraught with background.” Behind...
Jonathan Sacks – Sometimes, alongside medical treatment, we need the touch of another to heal our pain There was a very moving...
Jonathan Sacks – God and Strangers Vayera God appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance...
Jonathan Sacks – Four Dimensions of the Journey Lech Lecha 5779 Within the first words that God addresses to the bearer of...
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