Last month, Rabbi Sacks visited communities in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Speaking at the Beit Knesset Feigenson, Rabbi Sacks delivered a lecture where he explored the...
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Bereishit ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid...
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. I was once present when the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, was asked to predict the course...
In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...
With Chanukah just around the corner, Rabbi Sacks has written eight short thoughts, one for each night of Chanukah. Why...
Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. ” The Dignity of Difference” “Judaism and Jews represent the voice of hope in the conversation among...
By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...
By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...
On Monday 21st October 2013, Rabbi Sacks delivered the twenty-sixth Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club in New York. Hosted by First...
By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...
A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...
The early history of humanity as told in the Torah is a series of disappointments. God gives human beings freedom, which...
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner Lekh Lekha By Rabbi Sacks Leaders lead. That does not mean to say that they don’t follow....
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner The praise that Noah is accorded is unparalleled anywhere in Tanakh. He was, says the Torah,...
Sculpture by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. Commentary by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. If leadership is the solution, what is the problem? On this,...
The question is essential to the mitzvah itself. The Torah says: “Live in sukkot for seven days: All native-born Israelites are...
At the end of his life, having given the Israelites at God’s behest 612 commands, Moses is instructed to give them...
Art by Phillip Ratner – Ratner Musem. Ki Tavo begins with the ceremony of bringing firstfruits to the Temple. The Mishnah...
Art by Phillip Ratner-Ratner Museum. In his enumeration of the various leadership roles within the nation that would take shape after...
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