All posts tagged "Bible"
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1.6KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Freewill: Use It or Lose It
Jonathan Sacks – Freewill: Use It or Lose It In parshat Va’era we read for the first time, not of Pharaoh hardening...
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1.3KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – What it Takes to Forgive
Jonathan Sacks – What it Takes to Forgive Joseph forgives. That, as I have argued before, was a turning point in history....
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1.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The First Psychotherapist
Jonathan Sacks – The First Psychotherapist The phrase “Jewish thinker” may mean two very different things. It may mean a thinker who...
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1.4KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Jews and Economics
Jonathan Sacks – Jews and Economics We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over twenty per cent...
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1.5KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Improbable Endings and the Defeat of Despair
Jonathan Sacks – Improbable Endings and the Defeat of Despair We live life looking forward but we understand it only looking back....
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1.3KMel AlexenbergMel Alexenberg -Orchestrating Dry Pixels and Wet Biomolecules
Mel Alexenberg -Orchestrating Dry Pixels and Wet Biomolecules This blogpost is based upon the “Turn Your Lens on Yourself” chapter in my...
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1.5KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Struggle of Faith
Jonathan Sacks – The Struggle of Faith There are Mozarts and there are Beethovens. Which are you? I have only the most...
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2.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Out of the Depths
Jonathan Sacks – Out of the Depths What did Jacob add to the Jewish experience? What is it that we find in...
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3.4KMel AlexenbergMel Alexenberg – Cyberangels Seen Ascending from the New York City Subways
Mel Alexenberg – Cyberangels Seen Ascending from the New York City Subways This article is based upon the “Turn Your Lens on...
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3.2KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob?
Jonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob? Jonathan Sacks – Why Isaac? Why Jacob? Why Isaac, not Ishmael? Why Jacob, not Esau?...
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3.0KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The World’s Oldest Man
Jonathan Sacks – The World’s Oldest Man On 11 August 2017, the world’s oldest man passed away, just a month short of...
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2.1KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Inner-Directedness Lech Lecha
Jonathan Sacks – Inner-Directedness Lech Lecha Is character strictly personal – either you are or aren’t calm, courageous, charismatic – or does...
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2.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Trace of God
Jonathan Sacks – The Trace of God The story of the first eight chapters of Bereishit is tragic but simple: creation, followed...
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3.7KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Faith of God (Bereishit 5778)
Jonathan Sacks – The Faith of God (Bereishit 5778) In stately prose the Torah in its opening chapter describes the unfolding of...
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3.2KLee DiamondLee Diamond – A Jewish dispute: But Not for Heaven
Lee Diamond – A Jewish dispute: But Not for Heaven When will they ever learn? The debate continues! It’s like the debate...
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4.8KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas
Jonathan Sacks – Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas What is Judaism? A religion? A faith? A way of life? A set of beliefs? A...
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3.5KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Most Personal of Festivals
Jonathan Sacks – The Most Personal of Festivals The day is intense. The process of preparation and prayer began forty days ago...
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4.9KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Moses the Man
Jonathan Sacks – Moses the Man That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount...
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3.9KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Challenge of Jewish Repentance
Jonathan Sacks – The Challenge of Jewish Repentance The Ten Days of Repentance are the holy of holies of Jewish time. They begin...
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3.2KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Why Be Jewish?
Jonathan Sacks – Why Be Jewish? In the last days of his life Moses renews the covenant between God and Israel. The...
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