Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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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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Kiddush Hashem ( the sanctification of God’s name) in a Complicated World
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...
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Surviving Failure – Vayechi
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Bereishit ends on a sublime note of reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers. His brothers were afraid...
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The Unexpected Leader – Vayigash
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. I was once present when the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis, was asked to predict the course...
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The Power of Dreams – Mikketz
In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What was...
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8 Short Thoughts for 8 Chanukah Nights
With Chanukah just around the corner, Rabbi Sacks has written eight short thoughts, one for each night of Chanukah. Why...
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The Power of Praise – Vayeshev
Art By Phillip Ratner. Commentary by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than...
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Why Be Jewish?
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. ” The Dignity of Difference” “Judaism and Jews represent the voice of hope in the conversation among...
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Be Thyself – Vayishlach
By Rabbi Sacks. I have argued in previous years of Covenant and Conversation that the episode in which the Jewish people...
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Light in Dark Times – Vayetse
By Rabbi Sacks. What is it that made Jacob – not Abraham or Isaac or Moses – the true father of the...
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On Creative Minorities – Rabbi Sacks – Erasmus Lecture
On Monday 21st October 2013, Rabbi Sacks delivered the twenty-sixth Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club in New York. Hosted by First...
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The Price of Silence
By Rabbi Sacks, In an earlier Covenant and Conversation I quoted the Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893, dean of the...
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Beginning the Journey
A while back, a British newspaper, The Times, interviewed a prominent member of the Jewish community – let’s call him Lord...
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