Jonathan Sacks – Dressing to Impress Tetzaveh, with its elaborate description of the “sacred vestments” which the Priests and the High Priest...
Jonathan Sacks – What Do We Receive When We Give? The Lord spoke to Moshe, saying, “Tell the Israelites to take an...
Jonathan Sacks – We will do and we will hear Two words we read towards the end of our parsha – na’aseh ve-nishma,...
Jonathan Sacks – The Universal and the Particular The quintessential Jewish expression of thanks, gratitude and acknowledgment is Baruch Hashem, meaning “Thank God,”...
Jonathan Sacks – Crossing the Sea Our parsha begins with an apparently simple proposition: When Pharaoh let the people go, God did...
Jonathan Sacks – Why Storytelling Is Essential to Jews and Judaism Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the...
Jonathan Sacks – “Evil happens when people let it happen.. “Evil happens when people let it happen, and our best defence against it...
Jonathan Sacks – The Weighing of the Heart In this week’s parsha, before even the first plague has struck Egypt, God tells...
Jonathan Sacks – Faith in the Future Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by the story of...
Jonathan Sacks – Family, Faith and Freedom If you want to understand what a book is about, look carefully at how it...
Jonathan Sacks – The Future of the Past In our parsha, Joseph does something unusual. Revealing himself to his brothers, fully aware...
Jonathan Sacks – Joseph and the Risks of Power Mikketz represents the most sudden and radical transformation in the Torah. Joseph, in...
Jonathan Sacks – The Angel who did not know he was an Angel The story of Joseph and his brothers, spread over...
Jonathan Sacks – No Longer Shall You Be Called Jacob One fact about this week’s parsha has long perplexed the commentators. After...
Jonathan Sacks – Laban the Aramean Vayetse 5780 The events narrated in this week’s parsha – Jacob’s flight to Laban, his stay...
Jonathan Sacks – Isaac and Esau Toldot 5780 It’s a haunting question. Why did Isaac love Esau? The verse says so explicitly:...
Jonathan Sacks – To Have a Why Chayei Sarah 5780 The name of our parsha seems to embody a paradox. It is...
Jonathan Sacks – Negative Capability I have written about the binding of Isaac many times in these studies, each time proposing an...
Jonathan Sacks – A Palace in Flames Lech Lecha 5780 Why Abraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read...
Jonathan Sacks – The Light in the Ark Amid all the drama of the impending flood and the destruction of almost all...
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