Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell
Jonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell It remains one of the most counterintuitive passages in all of religious literature. Moses is...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – Freewill: Use It or Lose It
Jonathan Sacks – Freewill: Use It or Lose It In parshat Va’era we read for the first time, not of Pharaoh hardening...
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1.9KJonathan Sacks – Five Ideas for Life
Jonathan Sacks – Five Ideas for Life I spend a lot of time with young people — pupils about to leave school,...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – What it Takes to Forgive
Jonathan Sacks – What it Takes to Forgive Joseph forgives. That, as I have argued before, was a turning point in history....
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1.7KJonathan Sacks – The First Psychotherapist
Jonathan Sacks – The First Psychotherapist The phrase “Jewish thinker” may mean two very different things. It may mean a thinker who...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Jews and Economics
Jonathan Sacks – Jews and Economics We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over twenty per cent...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – Improbable Endings and the Defeat of Despair
Jonathan Sacks – Improbable Endings and the Defeat of Despair We live life looking forward but we understand it only looking back....
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2.2KRabbi Jonathan Sacks on the status of Jerusalem
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on the status of Jerusalem I welcome today’s decision by the United States to recognise as the capital of...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Struggle of Faith
Jonathan Sacks – The Struggle of Faith There are Mozarts and there are Beethovens. Which are you? I have only the most...
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2.8KJonathan Sacks – Out of the Depths
Jonathan Sacks – Out of the Depths What did Jacob add to the Jewish experience? What is it that we find in...
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3.5KJonathan Sacks: Discusses Community Today – Identity – Modern Orthodoxy
Jonathan Sacks: Discusses Community Today – Identity – Modern Orthodoxy Earlier this year on 22nd October, I took part in a public...
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3.2KJonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob?
Jonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob? Jonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob? Why Isaac, not Ishmael? Why Jacob, not Esau?...
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3.0KJonathan Sacks – The World’s Oldest Man
Jonathan Sacks – The World’s Oldest Man On 11 August 2017, the world’s oldest man passed away, just a month short of...
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2.1KJonathan Sacks – Inner-Directedness Lech Lecha
Jonathan Sacks – Inner-Directedness Lech Lecha Is character strictly personal – either you are or aren’t calm, courageous, charismatic – or does...
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2.7KJonathan Sacks – The Trace of God
Jonathan Sacks – The Trace of God The story of the first eight chapters of Bereishit is tragic but simple: creation, followed...
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3.7KJonathan Sacks – The Faith of God (Bereishit 5778)
Jonathan Sacks – The Faith of God (Bereishit 5778) In stately prose the Torah in its opening chapter describes the unfolding of...
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4.8KJonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas
Jonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas What is Judaism? A religion? A faith? A way of life? A set of beliefs? A...
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2.8KJonathan Sacks – Sukkot For Our Time
Jonathan Sacks – Sukkot For Our Time Of all the festivals, Sukkot is surely the one that speaks most powerfully to our...
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3.5KJonathan Sacks – The Most Personal of Festivals
Jonathan Sacks – The Most Personal of Festivals The day is intense. The process of preparation and prayer began forty days ago...
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4.9KJonathan Sacks – Moses the Man
Jonathan Sacks – Moses the Man That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount...
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