Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – Freewill ” The Ancient Question”
Jonathan Sacks How could it be right to punish Pharaoh and his people for a decision – a series of...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – On Not Obeying Immoral Orders
Jonathan Sacks: We do not know who they were. The Torah gives us no further information about them than that they...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – When is it permitted to tell a lie?
Jonathan Sacks Yet the brothers were not wholly reassured. Maybe Joseph did not mean what he said. Perhaps he still harboured...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Birth of Forgiveness
Jonathan Sacks There is such a moment in this week’s parsha, and in its way it may have been no...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Appearance and Reality – Mikketz
Jonathan Sacks. Art by international artist Phillip Ratner Finally after twenty-two years and many twists and turns, Joseph and his brothers meet....
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2.8KJonathan Sacks – On Chanukah and New Movement Against Religious Persecution
By Jonathan Sacks-Wall Street Journal Jonathan Sacks In 1991, I lit Hanukkah candles with Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the...
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2.1KJonathan Sacks – The Heroism of Tamar
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks: This is a true story that took place in the 1970s. Rabbi Dr Nahum Rabinovitch,...
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2.0KJonathan Sacks – The Parable of the Tribes
Jonathan Sacks Jacob learns of this fact but does nothing until his sons return. Shimon and Levi, Dina’s brothers,...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – Love is Not Enough
Jonathan Sacks: Not only is Judaism a religion of love. It was the first civilisation to place love at the centre of...
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1.3K“Jews don’t need to agree with each other, but they do need to care about each other.”
Jews During the Jewish Federation’s 2014 General Assembly, Rabbi Sacks was interviewed by Rabbi Mark S. Golub for The Jewish Broadcasting Service....
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1.7KJonathan Sacks – Was Jacob Right To Take Esau’s Blessing?
Sculpture: Thanks to our dear friend international artist Phillip Ratner. “Was Jacob right to take Esau’s blessing in disguise? Was he right...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – The Kindness of Strangers
Jonathan Sacks In 1966 an eleven-year-old black boy moved with his parents and family to a white neighbourhood in Washington.[1]...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – The Binding of Isaac – The Birth of the Individual
jonathan sacks The conventional reading of this passage is that Abraham was being asked to show that his love...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – How perfect were the patriarchs and matriarchs?
Jonathan Sacks Know that Abraham our father unintentionally committed a great sin by bringing his righteous wife to a...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – Confronting Violence in the Name of God
One of the most important and profound lectures to date by Jonathan Sacks. This is for everyone who is concerned about...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Beyond Nature – Noach – Covenant & Conversation
Jonathan Sacks The argument continues today among the neo-Darwinians. Some believe that natural selection and the struggle for survival make...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – The Genesis of Justice – Bereishit
Jonathan Sacks Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the...
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1.3KJonathan Sacks – The World’s Most Enduring Moral Voice
Jonathan Sacks: Almost immediately the Torah plunges us into the drama of the human situation. Though God made humans...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Sukkot: The Dual Festival
Jonathan Sacks Speaking of the three pilgrimage festivals – Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot – Deuteronomy speaks of ‘joy’. But it...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Forgiveness and Europe’s Alarming New Anti-Semitism
Jonathan Sacks The first time God forgives is after the sin of the golden calf. He hears...
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