Jonathan Sacks: The Prophetic Voice MATOT-MASEI During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as we recall the destruction of...
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT PINCHAS: HOW TO BE A HOLY ZEALOT Parshat Pinchas begins by honoring Aaron’s grandson, Pinchas for his zealous...
Jonathan Sacks: The Zealot Pinchas With Pinchas a new type enters the world of Israel: the zealot. “Pinchas son of Eleazar, son...
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: Who Should(n’t) Get Automatic Israeli Citizenship? Like a cat with nine lives, once again the question of “Who is...
RAV KOOK ON Parshat Balak: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT BALAK: MODERNIZING BILAAM’S PROPHECIES In Parshat Balak, the Torah recounts...
Jonathan Sacks: Not Reckoned Among the Nations-בלקBalak The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the...
Jonathan Sacks: Losing Miriam CHUKAT It is a scene that still has the power to shock and disturb. The people complain. There...
RAV KOOK ON PARSHAT CHUKAT: MOSES’S FATAL ANGRY ERROR AT THE WATERS OF DISPUTATION AND WHAT WE MUST DO TO FIX IT...
Jonathan Sacks: The Leader as Servant KORACH written by Rabbi Sacks in 2012 “You have gone too far! The whole community is...
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....
Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig: The Passover Seder’s “4 SONS”: Different Lessons Passover’s Haggadah at the evening “seder” is not about answers but about...
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...
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