Tag: 5782
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l -Moses’ Death, Moses’ Life – VEZOT...
And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God as he had been all those years ago when, as a shepherd in Midian,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Torah as Song VAYELECH •...
Moses’ long and tempestuous career is about to end. With words of blessing and encouragement he hands on the mantle of leadership to his...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Why Judaism? – NITZAVIM •...
This week’s parsha raises a question that goes to the heart of Judaism, but which was not asked for many centuries until raised by...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Pursuit of Joy –...
Happiness, said Aristotle, is the ultimate good at which all humans aim. But in Judaism it is not necessarily so. Happiness is a high value. Ashrei,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l -To the Third and Fourth Generations...
There is, on the face of it, a fundamental contradiction in the Torah. On the one hand we hear, in the passage known as...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Environmental Responsibility SHOFTIM •...
Some commands in the Torah were understood so narrowly by the Sages that they were rendered almost inapplicable. One example is the ir ha-nidachat, the...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Second Tithe and Strong...
Biblical Israel from the time of Joshua until the destruction of the Second Temple was a predominantly agricultural society. Accordingly, it was through agriculture...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Power of Gratitude EIKEV...
In the early 1990s, one of the great medical research exercises of modern times took place. It became known as the Nun Study. Some...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Right and the Good...
Buried among the epic passages in Va’etchanan – among them the Shema and the Ten Commandments – is a brief passage with large implications...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Why Are There So Many...
At the beginning of the book of Devarim, Moses reviews the history of the Israelites’ experience in the wilderness, starting with the appointment of...