The festival of Shavuot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Here is how Shavuot is described and defined in parsha...
Art by Phillip Ratner/Ratner Museum Commentary By Atar Hadari for Mosaic Magazine Shavuot: It’s impossible to describe the sound of good...
Politics of Envy. Few things in the Torah are more revolutionary than its conception of leadership. by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Politics...
Nation of Individuals. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why...
We The People. By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. In Bechukotai, in the midst of one of the most...
By Jonathan Sacks Please take the time and read this weeks commentary. His insights transcend personal religious identity. Jonathan Sacks:...
Be Not Afraid of Greatness: By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Embedded in this week’s parsha are two of the most fundamental commands...
Followership By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. There is a fascinating sequence of commands in the great “holiness code” with which our parsha begins,...
Sprints and Marathons By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...
The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...
By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . Messianic Consciousness by Ariel Ben Avraham. We must understand Jewish prophecy...
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...
Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...
By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . Messianic Consciousness by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Prophet predicts (chapters 20-23) the...
“If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...
By Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord...
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham.“For you have forgotten the God of your redemption, and...
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