Tag: life-changing ideas

Love Is Not Enough (Acharei-Mot Kedoshim 5778)

17th April 2018

The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of all commands: to love your neighbour and to … Read more

11th April 2018

From time to time couples come to see me before their wedding. Sometimes they ask me whether I have any … Read more

29th March 2018

Have you ever felt inadequate to a task you have been assigned or a job you have been given? Do … Read more

19th March 2018

The first words we are taught to say each morning, immediately on waking, are Modeh/modah ani, “I give thanks.” We … Read more

12th March 2018

It was never my ambition or aspiration to be a rabbi. I went to university to study economics. I then … Read more

5th March 2018

With this week’s double parsha, with its long account of the construction of the sanctuary – one of the longest … Read more

26th February 2018

Comparing two of the most famous events in the Torah, we face what seems like a glaring contradiction. In this … Read more

20th February 2018

There are lives that are lessons. The late Henry Knobil’s was one. He was born in Vienna in 1932. His … Read more

13th February 2018

The behavioural economist Dan Ariely did a series of experiments on what is known as the IKEA effect, or “why … Read more

6th February 2018

William Ury, founder of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvellous story in one of his books.[1] A young … Read more