Tag: 5783
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Social Animal – VAYAKHEL,...
At the beginning of this parsha Moses performs a tikkun, a mending of the past, namely the sin of the Golden Calf. The Torah signals this by...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Closeness of God –...
The more I study the Torah, the more conscious I become of the immense mystery of Exodus 33. This is the chapter set in the...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Inspiration & Perspiration -TETZAVEH •...
Beethoven rose each morning at dawn and made himself coffee. He was fastidious about this: each cup had to be made with exactly sixty...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – To Thank Before We Think...
The Ten Commandments are the most famous religious and moral code in history. Until recently they adorned American courtrooms. They still adorn most synagogue...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – The Spiritual Child – ...
The American writer Bruce Feiler recently published a best-selling book entitled The Secrets of Happy Families. It’s an engaging work that uses research largely drawn from...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Spirits in a Material World...
The Torah sometimes says something of fundamental importance in what seems like a minor and incidental comment. There is a fine example of this...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – Turning Curses into Blessings –...
Genesis ends on an almost serene note. Jacob has found his long lost son. The family has been reunited. Joseph has forgiven his brothers....
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l -Reframing -VAYIGASH • 5776, 5783
Maimonides called his ideal type of human being – the sage – a rofeh nefashot, a “healer of souls”. Today we call such a person a psychotherapist,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – How to Change the World...
In his Hilchot Teshuvah (Laws of Repentance), Moses Maimonides makes one of the most empowering statements in religious literature. Having explained that we, and the world,...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l – How the Light Gets In...
Why Jacob? That is the question we find ourselves asking repeatedly as we read the narratives of Genesis. Jacob is not what Noah was:...