All posts tagged "Torah"
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Passover-How It Tells its Story, The Unasked Question, and The Jewish Task
All three taken from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. As Passover ( Pesach) approaches I thought it would nice to...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Sprints and Marathons – Acharei Mot
Sprints and Marathons By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
How To Praise – subject of lashon hara, evil speech – Metsorah
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How To Praise. The sages were eloquent on the subject of lashon hara, evil speech, the sin...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Price of Free Speech – Tazria – Commentary
The Price of Free Speech. By Rabbi Sacks Hannah Smith was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl living in Lutterworth, Leicestershire. Bright and outgoing,...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...
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Zohar Raviv
Dr Zohar Raviv – Key Paradigms of Jewish Thought and Life – Four Part Series
In this period after Purim and with Passover just around the corner we thought it appropriate to share this four...
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Blogs
Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.
“If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...
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Blogs
Jordanian’s Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan: Cites Quranic Sources for Islam-Jewish Relations
Sheikh Ahmad al-Adwan “Historic Palestine”? A heretical invention. The right to al-Aqsa? Nothing less than a distortion of Allah’s word • Jordanian...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Sins of a Leader – Vayikra
Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...
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Guest Contributors
A Wonderful Story: 114 year old Kurdish Rabbi in Jerusalem
From Rudaw.net: By Lazar Berman. In a humble apartment in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood, about a mile south of the walls of the...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa
By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....
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Blogs
“The 7 Principles to Inner Happiness”
By Rav Sacks. What are some of the key principles to consider when looking to lead a life of true inner...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVIII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham The Creator through the Prophet reiterates His...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
The Home We Build Together – Terumah
By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...
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Blogs
Exclusive: Gush Katif Education Day 2014: Impressions of an Expellee
By Shifra Shomron Thursday morning, January 23rd, we checked to make sure we were each wearing Gush Katif orange, the color...
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Blogs
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVII) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. The Prophet makes us reflect on our identity...
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Weekly Torah Reading
The Messianic Consciousness in Jewish Prophecy (XXXVI) Isaiah
Illustration by Yoseph Savan based on The Zohar . by Ariel Ben Avraham. We have said that we need God’s...
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
A Nation of Leaders – Yitro
By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...
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