All posts tagged "jonathan sacks"
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751Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Sacrifices of Childbirth
Jonathan Sacks – The Sacrifices of Childbirth At the start of this parsha is a cluster of laws that challenged and puzzled...
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700Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Between Hope and Humanity (Shemini 5779)
Jonathan Sacks – Between Hope and Humanity (Shemini 5779) It should have been the great day of celebration. The Tabernacle, Israel’s first...
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759Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Destructive & Self-Destructive
Jonathan Sacks – Destructive & Self-Destructive This sedra, speaking about sacrifices, prohibits the eating of blood: Wherever you live, you must not...
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837Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – On Jewish Character
Jonathan Sacks – On Jewish Character Pekudei has sometimes been called the accountant’s parsha, because that is how it begins, with the...
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773Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Beauty of Holiness or The Holiness of Beauty
Jonathan Sacks – The Beauty of Holiness or The Holiness of Beauty In Ki Tissa and in Vayakhel we encounter the figure...
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878Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – A Stiff-Necked People Ki Tissa
Jonathan Sacks – A Stiff-Necked People Ki Tissa It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere forty...
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665Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – A Portable Home
Jonathan Sacks – A Portable Home The parsha of Terumah describes the construction of the Tabernacle, the first collective house of worship in the history of...
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713Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger
Jonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger There are commands that leap off the page by their sheer moral power. So it is...
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876Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom
Jonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of...
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840Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat
Jonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation...
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789Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural?
Jonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural? The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite...
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751Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Against their gods
Jonathan Sacks – Against their gods The ninth plague – darkness – comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is...
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778Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The God Who Acts in History
Jonathan Sacks – The God Who Acts in History The Israelites were at their lowest ebb. They had been enslaved. A decree...
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762Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Light at the Heart of Darkness
Jonathan Sacks – The Light at the Heart of Darkness She is one of the most unexpected heroes of the Hebrew Bible....
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701Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Future of the Past
Jonathan Sacks – The Future of the Past The scene that brings the book of Genesis to a close is intensely significant....
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893Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Does My Father Love Me?
Jonathan Sacks – Does My Father Love Me? It is one of the great questions we naturally ask each time we read...
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806Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Universal and the Particular
Jonathan Sacks – The Universal and the Particular The story of Joseph is one of those rare narratives in Tanach in which...
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728Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope
Jonathan Sacks – Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope The deception has taken place. Joseph has been sold into slavery. His brothers dipped his...
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871Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Physical Fear, Moral Distress
Jonathan Sacks – Physical Fear, Moral Distress Twenty-two years have passed since Jacob fled his brother, penniless and alone; twenty-two years have...
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1.0KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – When the ‘I’ is Silent
Jonathan Sacks – When the ‘I’ is Silent This week’s parsha relates a powerful, primal vision of prayer: Jacob, alone and far from home,...
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