All posts tagged "jonathan sacks"
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994Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – Three Versions of Shabbat Emor 5779
Jonathan Sacks – Three Versions of Shabbat Emor 5779 There is something unique about the way Parshat Emor speaks about Shabbat. It...
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803Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – From Priest to People Kedoshim 5779
Jonathan Sacks – From Priest to People Kedoshim 5779 Something fundamental happens at the beginning of this parsha and the story is...
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868Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksPrayer for Yom HaShoah, composed by Rabbi Sacks.
Prayer for Yom HaShoah, composed by Rabbi Sacks. Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the victims of the greatest crime of man...
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1.1KRabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell & Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night
Jonathan Sacks – The Story We Tell & Rambam’s Guide for the Perplexed on the Seder Night When you read the...
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748Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksJonathan Sacks – The Power of Speech Metzora 5779
Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Speech Metzora 5779 As we saw in Parshat Tazria, the Sages identify tzara’at – the condition that affects...
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753Rabbi 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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708Rabbi 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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764Rabbi 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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840Rabbi 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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775Rabbi 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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881Rabbi 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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669Rabbi 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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718Rabbi 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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886Rabbi 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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846Rabbi 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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793Rabbi 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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756Rabbi 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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789Rabbi 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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768Rabbi 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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711Rabbi 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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