Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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1.2KJonathan Sacks – The Circumcision of Desire
Jonathan Sacks There is the concept of chivalry that makes its appearance in the age of the Crusades, the code...
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1.4KJonathan Sacks – Violence and the Sacred
Jonathan Sacks This is, of course, one of the deepest questions in Judaism, and there are many answers. Here...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra
jonathan sacks Among the simplest yet most profound was the comment made by R. Shneor Zalman of Ladi, the first...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Spirit of Community / Integrity in Public Life
Jonathan Sacks What do you do when your people has just made a golden calf, run riot and lost its sense...
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1.2KJonathan Sacks – Can there be Compassion without Justice?
Jonathan Sacks God then places Moses in a cleft in the rock face, telling him he will be able to...
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1.6KJonathan Sacks – The Therapeutic Joy of Purim
jonathan sacks This in turn refers back to the text in which Haman decided on the timing of his decree:...
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1.9KJonathan Sacks – The Ethic of Holiness
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Gratitude of Labour – Terumah
There is an important principle in Judaism, a source of hope and also one of the structuring principles of the Torah....
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1.7KJonathan Sacks – Healing the Heart of Darkness
Jonathan Sacks On one occasion the Jobbik party asked for a list of all the Jews in the Hungarian government. Disturbingly,...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Structure of the Good Society
jonathan sacks Lord Jakobovits pointed to the large mural that decorates the chamber and gave it its name. It is...
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2.4KJonathan Sacks – The Return of Anti-Semitism
Jonathan Sacks Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, violence and hatred against Jews is on the rise, especially in the Middle...
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1.5KJonathan Sacks – The Face of Evil
Jonathan Sacks In the wake of those events an American thinker Lee Harris wrote two books, Civilization and its Enemies...
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1.8K70 Days for 70 Years – Remember the Past to Build the Future
70 Days for 70 Years [youtube=youtu.be/LAKZQ2k9MPY&w=520&h=315] Rabbi Sacks is deeply honoured to be the international president for the 70 Days for...
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1.9KJonathan Sacks Telling the Story – BO
Jonathan Sacks Walk down to the Potomac basin and you see the Martin Luther King Memorial with its sixteen quotes from...
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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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1.6KJonathan 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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1.5KJonathan 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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