Weekly Torah Reading
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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 Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIX) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham In the entire chapter 15 the Prophet denounces the...
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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 Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVIII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham The Creator through the Prophet reiterates His...
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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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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Prophet makes us reflect on our identity...
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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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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVI) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. We have said that we need God’s...
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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 Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXV) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. “The burden of Babylon was seen by...
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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 Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIV) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. As we begin to assimilate God’s ways and...
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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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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXIII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Messianic Consciousness is an integrating, comprising, encompassing...
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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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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . The Prophet continues describing the qualities of...
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The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXI) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham . In his three following chapters (7-10) 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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