Jonathan Sacks
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan Sacks
The Greatness in Humility
There is a fascinating detail in the passage about the king in this week's parsha. The text says that "When he takes the throne...
The Politics of Freedom
Having set out the broad principles of the covenant, Moses now turns to the details, which extend over many chapters and several parshiyot. ...
The Morality of Love
Something implicit in the Torah from the very beginning becomes explicit in the book of Devarim. God is the God of love. More than we...
Why is the Jewish People So Small
Near the end of Va'etchanan, so inconspicuously that we can sometimes miss it, is a statement with such far reaching implications that it...
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great "vision," chazon,...
The Prophetic Voice
During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b'Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing...
Israel: Not Reckoned Among the Nations
The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other...
Leaders Acting as Servants
Korach had a point. "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is with...
The Fear of Freedom
The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they have got it so wrong? The land, they...
What G-d Says About Truly Great Leaders
It was the emotional low of Moses' life. After the drama at Sinai, the revelation, the golden calf, the forgiveness, the building of the...
A Path to Social Order and Human Freedom
Bemidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people had journeyed from Egypt to Mount Sinai. There they...
The Limits of the Free Market
As I was writing this essay a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read, "The UK's richest people have defied the double-dip recession to become...
A Call to Remember From the Depths of Our Souls
Yom HaShoah, the day set aside in the Jewish calendar for Holocaust remembrance. During the nightmare years of the Shoah one moment stands out for what...
