Jonathan Sacks

From the vantage point of heaven, the ultimate absurdity is when humans start thinking of themselves as G‑dlike.

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 not sure why.

No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And spiritual leadership can be hardest of them all.

Silence in Tanach often has a negative connotation. But not all silence is sad.

Jews are not just citizens of the same nation or adherents of the same faith. We are members of the same extended family.

We are spiritual beings but we are also physical beings. We cannot be spiritual, close to G‑d, all the time. That is why there is secular time as well as holy time.

What are we? What makes us Jewish? This has been one of the persisting debates about Jewish life ever since the nineteenth century.

Leaders, above all, should be capable of acknowledging when and how they had erred, and how to put it right.

Why circumcision? Why was this from the outset not just a mitzvah, one command among others, but the very sign of our covenant with G‑d and His with us? And why on the eighth day?

One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of animal sacrifices – for obvious reasons.