Tag: 5782
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – The Economics of Liberty BEHAR •...
The most surprising best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century – a dense 700-page-long treatise on economic theory backed...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Sanctifying the Name EMOR •...
In recent years we have often felt plagued by reports of Israeli and Jewish leaders whose immoral actions had been exposed. A President guilty...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l. – From Priest to People KEDOSHIM...
Something fundamental happens at the beginning of this parsha and the story is one of the greatest, if rarely acknowledged, contributions of Judaism to...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Scapegoat ACHAREI MOT •...
The strangest and most dramatic element of the service on Yom Kippur, set out in Acharei Mot (Lev. 16:7-22), was the ritual of the two goats,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Power of Shame METZORA...
On 20 December 2013, a young woman named Justine Sacco was waiting in Heathrow airport before boarding a flight to Africa. To while away...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Circumcision of Desire TAZRIA...
It is hard to trace with any precision the moment when a new idea makes its first appearance on the human scene, especially one...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Why Do We Sacrifice? VAYIKRA...
The laws of sacrifices that dominate the early chapters of the Book of Leviticus are among the hardest in the Torah to relate to...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Integrity in Public Life PEKUDEI...
There is a verse so familiar that we don’t often stop to reflect on what it means. It is the line from the first...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Spirit of Community VAYAKHEL...
What do you do when your people have just made a Golden Calf, run riot, and lost their sense of ethical and spiritual direction?...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Can there be Compassion Without...
At the height of the drama of the Golden Calf, a vivid and enigmatic scene takes place. Moses has secured forgiveness for the people....