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....
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,...
Rabbi Jonathan Kligler: Breaking News: Judaism Opposes Autocracy Dear Friends, As Passover approaches, I want to proclaim its central message: tyranny –...
Jonathan Sacks: Why Do We Sacrifice? Vayikra The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Leviticus are...
RAV KOOK ON PEKUDEI: SANCTIFYING EVERYTHING “וַיָּבֵ֣א אֶת־הָאָרֹן֮ אֶל־הַמִּשְׁכָּן֒ וַיָּ֗שֶׂם אֵ֚ת פָּרֹ֣כֶת הַמָּסָ֔ךְ וַיָּ֕סֶךְ עַ֖ל אֲר֣וֹן הָעֵד֑וּת כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃” And...
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...
Jonathan Sacks: The Aesthetic in Judaism Tetzaveh Why is the Torah so specific and emphatic, in this week’s Parsha, about the clothes...
Jonathan Sacks: The Architecture of Holiness TERUMAH From here to the end of the book of Exodus the Torah describes, in painstaking...
Jonathan Sacks: The Slow End of Slavery MISHPATIM In Parshat Mishpatim we witness one of the great stylistic features of the Torah,...
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT YITRO: BECOMING A HOLY NATION BY ESTABLISHING A HOLY GOVERNMENT “וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּֽהְיוּ־לִ֛י מַמְלֶ֥כֶת כֹּֽהֲנִ֖ים וְג֣וֹי קָד֑וֹשׁ“ “And you...
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