Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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867Jonathan Sacks – Evolution or Revolution? Behar 5779
Jonathan Sacks – Evolution or Revolution? Behar 5779 There are, it is sometimes said, no controlled experiments in history. Every society, every...
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995Jonathan Sacks – Three Versions of Shabbat Emor 5779
Jonathan Sacks – Three Versions of Shabbat Emor 5779 There is something unique about the way Parshat Emor speaks about Shabbat. It...
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804Jonathan Sacks – From Priest to People Kedoshim 5779
Jonathan Sacks – From Priest to People Kedoshim 5779 Something fundamental happens at the beginning of this parsha and the story is...
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869Prayer for Yom HaShoah, composed by Rabbi Sacks.
Prayer for Yom HaShoah, composed by Rabbi Sacks. Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the victims of the greatest crime of man...
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1.1KJonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell & Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night
Jonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell & Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night When you read the...
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749Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Speech Metzora 5779
Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Speech Metzora 5779 As we saw in Parshat Tazria, the Sages identify tzara’at – the condition that affects...
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754Jonathan Sacks – The Sacrifices of Childbirth
Jonathan Sacks – The Sacrifices of Childbirth At the start of this parsha is a cluster of laws that challenged and puzzled...
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708Jonathan Sacks – Between Hope and Humanity (Shemini 5779)
Jonathan Sacks – Between Hope and Humanity (Shemini 5779) It should have been the great day of celebration. The Tabernacle, Israel’s first...
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765Jonathan Sacks – Destructive & Self-Destructive
Jonathan Sacks – Destructive & Self-Destructive This sedra, speaking about sacrifices, prohibits the eating of blood: Wherever you live, you must not...
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764Jonathan Sacks The Pursuit of Meaning
Jonathan Sacks The Pursuit of Meaning The American Declaration of Independence speaks of the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit...
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841Jonathan Sacks – On Jewish Character
Jonathan Sacks – On Jewish Character Pekudei has sometimes been called the accountant’s parsha, because that is how it begins, with the...
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776Jonathan Sacks – The Beauty of Holiness or The Holiness of Beauty
Jonathan Sacks – The Beauty of Holiness or The Holiness of Beauty In Ki Tissa and in Vayakhel we encounter the figure...
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881Jonathan Sacks – A Stiff-Necked People Ki Tissa
Jonathan Sacks – A Stiff-Necked People Ki Tissa It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere forty...
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670Jonathan Sacks – A Portable Home
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...
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720Jonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger
Jonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger There are commands that leap off the page by their sheer moral power. So it is...
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886Jonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom
Jonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of...
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847Jonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat
Jonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation...
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794Jonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural?
Jonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural? The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite...
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756Jonathan Sacks – Against their gods
Jonathan Sacks – Against their gods The ninth plague – darkness – comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is...
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789Jonathan Sacks – The God Who Acts in History
Jonathan Sacks – The God Who Acts in History The Israelites were at their lowest ebb. They had been enslaved. A decree...
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