December 5, 2023
December 5, 2023

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Articles by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Feeling the Fear

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

Why Did Isaac Love Esau?

Even before they were born, Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb. They were destined, it seems, to be eternal adversaries. Not only were they

A Call From the Future

He was 137 years old. He had been through two traumatic events involving the people most precious to him in the world. The first involved

The Spirituality of Song

With Ha’azinu we climb to one of the peaks of Jewish spirituality. For a month Moses had taught the people. He had told them their

The Power of Gratitude

In the early 1990s, one of the great medical research exercises of modern times took place. It became known as the Nun Study. Some 700

The Right and the Good

  Buried among the epic passages in Va’etchanan—among them the Shema and the Ten Commandments—is a brief passage with large implications for the moral life

My Teacher: In Memoriam

There are moments when Divine Providence touches you on the shoulder and makes you see a certain truth with blazing clarity. Let me share with

Healing the Trauma of Loss

It took me two years to recover from the death of my father, of blessed memory. To this day, almost twenty years later, I am