Jonathan Sacks – Evolution or Revolution? Behar 5779 There are, it is sometimes said, no controlled experiments in history. Every society, every...
Jonathan Sacks – Three Versions of Shabbat Emor 5779 There is something unique about the way Parshat Emor speaks about Shabbat. It...
Jonathan Sacks – From Priest to People Kedoshim 5779 Something fundamental happens at the beginning of this parsha and the story is...
Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror z”l – Judaism: Into the 21st. Century Dr. Moshe Dror z”l Coordinator: World Future Society: Israel Chapter World...
Jonathan Sacks – The Power of Speech Metzora 5779 As we saw in Parshat Tazria, the Sages identify tzara’at – the condition that affects...
Jonathan Sacks – The Sacrifices of Childbirth At the start of this parsha is a cluster of laws that challenged and puzzled...
Jonathan Sacks – Destructive & Self-Destructive This sedra, speaking about sacrifices, prohibits the eating of blood: Wherever you live, you must not...
Shlomo Carlebach-Reb Shlomo’s Commentary on this Week’s Torah Parsha Parshat Vayikra ‘And the Lord called unto Moses, and spoke unto him...
Jonathan Sacks The Pursuit of Meaning The American Declaration of Independence speaks of the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit...
Jonathan Sacks – On Jewish Character Pekudei has sometimes been called the accountant’s parsha, because that is how it begins, with the...
Lee Diamond – The “Goldene Medina” of Persia Cyrus offered In 539 b.c.e. A return home To Eretz Yisrael Some 50,000 returned...
Reb. Shlomo Carlebach z”l Parshat Tetzav: Deeper than Prophecy Now you shall command (Sh’mos 27:20) After the Golden Calf, G-d tells Moshe...
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...
Jonathan Sacks – Loving the Stranger There are commands that leap off the page by their sheer moral power. So it is...
Jonathan Sacks – Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of...
Jonathan Sacks – The Stewardship Paradigm – A Thought for Tu B’Shvat Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation...
Jonathan Sacks – The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural? The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite...
Lee Diamond – They Would Have You Believe & A Body without a Soul They Would Have You Believe They claim that...
Lee Diamond – Baseless Hatred Destroys Us The second Temple Was destroyed by Us Because of our hatred For one another. We...
Lee Diamond – The Messiah and T’u Bishvat If you’re planting a tree And someone announces That the messiah has arrived Continue...
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