Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task
All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...
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Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot
Sprints and Marathons By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...
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How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...
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The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary
The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...
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Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...
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The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...
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The Sins of a Leader – Vayikra
Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...
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Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation
“If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...
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Team-Building – Vayakhel
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...
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How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa
By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....
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“The 7 Principles to Inner Happiness”
By Rav Sacks. What are some of the key principles to consider when looking to lead a life of true inner...
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The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...
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The Home We Build Together – Terumah
By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...
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Vision and Details – Mishpatim
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...
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A Nation of Leaders – Yitro
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...
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The Stewardship Paradigm
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation than the first chapter of Genesis, with...
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Looking Up – Beshallach
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. The impossible had happened. The mightiest army in the ancient...
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The Far Horizon – Bo
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of this week’s parsha, I often ask an audience to...
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Overcoming Setbacks – Vaera
At first, Moses’ mission seemed to be successful. He had feared that the people would not believe in him, but God had...
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Women as Leaders
This week’s parsha could be entitled “The birth of a leader.” We see Moses, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, growing up as...
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