Posts Tagged: Jonathan Sacks torah
Why Storytelling Is Essential to Jews and Judaism
Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the year 2000, a British Jewish research institute came up with a proposal that Jews...
Parshat Ki Tissa: The Jews as a Stiff-Necked People
It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere 40 days after the greatest revelation in history, have made an idol:...
The Torah and the Jewish People: An Ever-Repeated Story
Bamidbar, our parsha this week, takes up the story where we left it at the end of Shemot. The Jewish people had journeyed from Egypt to Mount Sinai....
We Should Feel Fear, But We Must Never Given In to It
It is one of the most enigmatic episodes in the Torah, but also one of the most important, because it was the moment that gave...
The Importance of Integrity in Public Life
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 paragraph...
Leadership During Times of Crisis
The parsha of Masei always occurs at the heart of the Three Weeks. This is the time when we engage in an act of collective...
