All posts tagged "Bible"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question

    Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked” son’s question. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.   Lessons about Jewish identity from the “wicked”...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task

        All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot

      Sprints and Marathons   By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah

                By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –

    By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...

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  Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.

  “If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

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  Jordanian’s Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan: Cites Quranic Sources for Islam-Jewish Relations

      Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan “Historic Palestine”? A heretical invention. The right to al-Aqsa? Nothing less than a distortion of Allah’s word • Jordanian...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Sins of a Leader – Vayikra

  Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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 7 Principles to Inner Happiness”

      By Rav Sacks. What are some of the key principles to consider when looking to lead a life of true inner...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

               By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  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...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Nation of Leaders – Yitro

                  By  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...