Jonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT It is a scene that still has the power to shock and disturb. The people complain. There...
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT...
Rav Kook: PARSHAT KORACH: the dangers of national and international KORACHISM “Now Korach, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi,...
Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 “You have gone too far! The whole community is...
Jonathan Sacks: The Real World Shelach Lecha The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they...
Jonathan Sacks: Is a Leader a Nursing Father? BEHA’ALOTECHA It was the emotional low of Moses’ life. After the drama at Sinai,...
Jonathan Sacks: The Ever-Repeated Story BAMIDBAR Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people...
Jonathan Sacks: The Limits of the Free Market Behar, Bechukotai As I was writing this essay, a newspaper headline caught my eye....
Jonathan Sacks: Eternity and Mortality Emor Our Parsha begins with a restriction on the people for whom a kohen may become tamei,...
Jonathan Sacks: Love Is Not Enough ACHAREI MOT – KEDOSHIM The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of...
Jonathan Sacks: Holiness and Childbirth TAZRIA – METZORA The sidrot of Tazria and Metzora contain laws which are among the most difficult...
Jonathan Sacks: Food for Thought SHEMINI The second half of Exodus and the first part of Leviticus form a carefully structured narrative....
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: The Passover Seder’s “4 SONS”: Different Lessons Passover’s Haggadah at the evening “seder” is not about answers but about...
Jonathan Sacks: Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night One of Judaism’s greatest sages, Rambam (Maimonides) offers us a...
Jonathan Sacks: The Story We Tell-The Rabbi Sacks Legacy When we read the Pesach story, we come across something so remarkable,...
Jonathan Sacks: Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Leviticus are...
Jonathan Sacks: Encampments & Journey- Vayakhel, Pekudei Right at the end of the book of Shemot, there is a textual difficulty so...
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT VAYAKHEL: WE MUST BUILD A TEMPLE OF GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶל־כׇּל־עֲדַ֥ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁר־צִוָּ֥ה...
Jonathan Sacks: Mirrors of Love Vayakhel The Torah in Parshat Vayakhel, which describes the making of the Mishkan, goes out of its...
Jonathan Sacks: The Birth of a New Freedom Ki Tissa Witnessing the birth of a new idea is a little like watching...
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