Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – In Memory of Rabbi Eitam & Naama Henkin
A dvar Torah for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot. This is worth your time ! The brutal murder of Rabbi Eitam and...
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Jonathan Sacks – Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Jonathan Sacks – Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? In majestic language, Moses breaks into song, investing his final...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – What chapter will we write in the Book of Life?
Jonathan Sacks – What chapter will we write in the Book of Life? In 1888, Alfred Nobel, the man who invented dynamite,...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – Torah as Song
Jonathan Sacks – Torah as Song Moses’ long and tempestuous career is about to end. With words of blessing and encouragement...
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1.2KCultivating the Inner Self
Cultivating the Inner Self “Original” is not a word often used in connection with a code of Jewish law. In general, the...
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1.2KWhy Judaism – Nitzavim Covenant & Conversation
Why Judaism – Nitzavim Covenant & Conversation This week’s parsha raises a question that goes to the heart of Judaism, but...
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – Why I Am A Jew
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – Why I Am A Jew “The deepest question any of us can ask is: Who am...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Pursuit of Joy
Jonathan Sacks – The Pursuit of Joy Happiness, said Aristotle, is the ultimate goal at which all humans aim.[1] But in...
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1.7KJonathan Sacks – On Creative Minorities
Jonathan Sacks – On Creative Minorities The following is a transcript of The Erasmus Lecture, delivered by Rabbi Sacks for First Things...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Environmental Responsibility
Jonathan Sacks – Environmental Responsibility Some commands in the Torah were understood so narrowly by the sages that they were rendered...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – The Second Tithe and the Making of a Strong Society
Jonathan Sacks – The Second Tithe and the Making of a Strong Society Biblical Israel from the time of Joshua until...
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1.9K1Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Gratitude
Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Gratitude In the early 1990s one of the great medical research exercises of modern times...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – The Right and the Good
Jonathan Sacks – The Right and the Good Buried among the epic passages in Va-etchanan – among them the Shema...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Why are there so many Jewish lawyers?
Jonathan Sacks – Why are there so many Jewish lawyers? At the beginning of Devarim, Moses reviews the history of the Israelites’...
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1.1KJonathan Sacks – Retribution and Revenge Mattot-Masei
Jonathan Sacks – Retribution and Revenge Mattot-Masei Near the end of Bemidbar, we encounter the law of the cities of refuge:...
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1.2KJonathan Sacks – Elijah and the Still, Small Voice
Jonathan Sacks – Elijah and the Still, Small Voice Then the word of the Lord came to him: ‘Why are you...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – A people that dwells alone?
Jonathan Sacks – A people that dwells alone? In the course of blessing the Jewish people Bilaam uttered words that have come...
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1.4K1Jonathan Sacks – “Wars are won by weapons, but peace is won by ideas”
Jonathan Sacks – “Wars are won by weapons, but peace is won by ideas” I was with the great...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – When truth is sacrificed to power
Jonathan Sacks – When truth is sacrificed to power What was wrong with Korach and his fellow rebels? On the...
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Jonathan Sacks – Israel Seen – Shelach Lecha
Jonathan Sacks – Israel Seen – Shelach Lecha You are driving ever so slightly above the speed limit. You see a...
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