Jonathan Sacks: Almost immediately the Torah plunges us into the drama of the human situation. Though God made humans...
Jonathan Sacks Speaking of the three pilgrimage festivals – Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot – Deuteronomy speaks of ‘joy’. But it...
Rav. Itzchak Marmorstein: The Illuminations of HaRav Avraham Itzchak HaCohen Kook ZT”L by Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein The new beginning of Rosh...
RETURN-THE LIMITLESS POWER OF THE WILL FOR GOOD “The whole world is pervaded by harmony…Our inner moral sense and its powerful...
Jonathan Sacks This is what he says: Give ear, O heavens, that I may speak, Earth, hear the sayings of...
As we approach 5775, Rabbi Sacks reflects on the past year and the messages our Rosh Hashanah prayers have for the...
Defeating Death (Nitzavim) Only now, reaching Nitzavim-Vayelech, can we begin to get a sense of the vast, world- changing project at...
Jonathan Sacks : There’s an old and totally apocryphal story about the nineteenth century French Jewish aristocrat Baron de Rothschild, whose...
Sunset-over-the-red-sea-coast-of-israel-the-town-of-eilat.Leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Rabbi Sacks has written a series of short thoughts to help focus our...
A profound commentary on our narrative as a people and nation. A must read for...
Jonathan Sacks This year we approach the New Year with more fear and trembling than for a very long time....
Jonathan Sacks First, a general point. Jews have been subjected to racism more and longer than any other nation...
Jonathan Sacks: The parsha of Shoftim is the classic source of the three types of leadership in Judaism, called by the...
ILLUMINATIONS OF RAV KOOK-HARAV HA’NAZIR AND THE SCROLL OF WAR AND PEACE . by Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein ILLUMINATIONS...
One of the gifts of great leaders, and one from which each of us can learn, is that they frame reality...
Jonathan Sacks “If only you would listen to these laws …” (Deut. 7: 12). These words with which our parsha...
Jonathan Sacks Buried inconspicuously in this week’s parsha is a short sentence with explosive potential, causing us to think again about...
It was one of the great moments of personal transformation, and it changed not only Moses but our very conception of...
By Rav Jonathan Sacks, The parsha of Masei always occurs at the heart of the Three Weeks. This is the time...
One of the hardest tasks of a leader – from prime ministers to parents – is conflict resolution. Yet it is...
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