Posts Tagged: jonathan sacks
Parshat Bamidbar: Stay Focused on Your Dreams
The books of Shemot and Bamidbar have some striking similarities. They are both about journeys. They both portray the Israelites as quarrelsome and ungrateful. Both...
Emor: How to Make Use of Your Time on Earth
Time management is more than management and larger than time. It is about life itself. God gives us one thing above all: life itself. And...
Acharei-Mot Kedoshim: Love Is Not Enough — We Also Need Rules
The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of all commands: to love your neighbor and to love the stranger. “Love your...
The Power of Praise — Tazria-Metsorah
From time to time, couples come to see me before their wedding. Sometimes they ask me whether I have any advice to give them about how...
When Weakness Becomes Strength
Have you ever felt inadequate to a task you have been assigned or a job you have been given? Do you sometimes feel that other...
Ki Tissa: How Anger Can Help Us — and Harm Us
Comparing two of the most famous events in the Torah, we face what seems like a glaring contradiction. In this week’s parsha, Moses -- on...
God Loves Those Who Argue
I have become increasingly concerned about the assault on free speech taking place throughout the West, particularly on university campuses. This is being done in the...
Jews and Economics
We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes -- more than 20% -- for a group that represents 0.2 per cent of the world's...
The Struggle of Faith: The Story of Jacob
There are Mozarts and there are Beethovens. Which are you? I have only the most amateur knowledge of music, but the impression one gets about Mozart...
The Space Between Us
The stories told in Bereishit chapters 21 and 22 -- the sending away of Ishmael and the binding of Isaac -- are among the hardest to understand...
Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas
What is Judaism? A religion? A faith? A way of life? A set of beliefs? A collection of commands? A culture? A civilization? It is all...
Ki Tavo and Our Covenant With God
You have affirmed [he-emarta] this day that the Lord is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and...
The Consent of the Governed
The contribution of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) to political thought is fundamental, but not well known. In this article, I want to look at the institution...
Why Civilizations Fail: The Lack of Faith
What is the real challenge of maintaining a free society? In parshat Eikev, Moses springs his great surprise. Here are his words: Be careful that you...
