Chaggim Teaching Resources for all the Jewish Festivals
Discover the festivals through the thought of Rabbi Sacks by browsing our collection of Jewish festival resources including Family Editions from the Ceremony & Celebration series, videos, short thoughts, and more!
Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition guides for every Chag
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Chag Highlights
Pesach: Family Edition
A full resource from our Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition series, for intergenerational learning about the festival of Passover. You can print the full bumper pack, or just selected sections for Seder night.
View the Tikkun Leil Resources
Our Shavuot Readers were developed by students of Rabbi Sacks, with sources and discussion points to be learnt in groups or pairs for Tikkun Leil. With resources for both adults and teens.
Israel: Home of Hope
Our beautiful animation illustrates Rabbi Sacks’ message for Israel, with accompanying learning resources, and a full album of songs and commentaries digitally remastered for Israel's 75th.
Yom Ha'atzmaut Addresses
Rabbi Sacks had a tradition of delivering powerful speeches as the day of of Yom HaZikaron turned into the night of Yom Ha'atzmaut, at Kinloss Synagogue.
Counting the Omer
Omer Calendar
49 Rabbi Sacks quotes accompany the daily counting of the Omer, in a new printable resource.
49 Q & A's
This page offers daily thought-provoking questions to consider, and clues to where on this site you can find Rabbi Sacks' answers!
The Omer Controversy
iN 2016, Rabbi Sacks delivered this shiur to over 500 yeshiva and seminary students in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Sacks Videos on the Chaggim
8 Chanukah Thoughts
Rabbi Sacks created 8 videos for the 8 nights of Chanukah, and our animators brought new illustrations to the videos.
Preparing for the New Year
10 short videos in which Rabbi Sacks offers inspiration to help us launch into Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur feeling prepared.
Midnight Selichot
These addresses, delivered by Rabbi Sacks before Selichot with the Shabbaton Choir, were often a highlight of the year.
BBC pre-Rosh Hashanah episodes
When he was Chief Rabbi, the BBC created a programme with Rabbi Sacks every September.
Israel: Home of Hope
Our beautiful animation illustrates Rabbi Sacks’ message for Israel, with accompanying learning resources, and a full album of songs and commentaries digitally remastered for Israel's 75th.
Yom Ha'atzmaut Videos
Rabbi Sacks also had a tradition of delivering powerful speeches as the day of of Yom HaZikaron turned into the night of Yom Ha'atzmaut, at Kinloss Synagogue.
Rabbi Sacks Videos on Pesach
The Story We Tell
When you read the Pesach story, you come across something so remarkable it's almost counterintuitive...
From Freedom to Responsibility
At the launch of the Koren Sacks Pesach Machzor, Rabbi Sacks delivered this inspiring keynote shiur.
Rambam's Guide for the Perplexed on Seder Night
With meaningful insights into Rambam's perspective on Seder night.
What do Pesach and Hamilton Have in Common?
Freedom is not won in a single moment. It needs to be fought for in every generation...
Shabbat HaGadol and Pesach Inspiration
Recorded by Rabbi Sacks ahead of Pesach 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown.
The Haggada's Politics
A conversation with Senator Joseph Lieberman tracing the Haggada from then to now.
A More Meaningful Holiday
The more we understand the Passover holiday, the more meaningful it will be for us...
Ways of Counting Time
A shiur on what Rabbi Sacks called The Omer Controversy, delivered at Aish HaTorah.
The Spirituality of Song
On Chol Hamoed Pesach 2020, Rabbi Sacks, Ishay Ribo and Sivan Rahav Meir held a very special online encounter...
Listen and Learn
B’Chol Dor v’Dor
This keynote address at The Jewish Center in New York explores the challenge of antisemitism from the Haggadah to now.
Read the Pesach Essays and Articles
The Cup of Hope
An essay published in the Jonathan Sacks on the meaning of the cup of wine we leave for Eliyahu HaNavi.
The Unasked Question
Pesach is a night of questions, but there is one we do not often ask, and it is significant...
Writing My Own Chapter
From the Covenant & Conversation series, this piece on Bo explores what it means to be a Jewish person, with links to our heritage.
The Far Horizon
What inspirational speech did Moshe give to Bnei Yisrael when they first left Egypt, and what can this teach us about leadership?
The Common Good, and Isolation
How Natan Sharansky's message of surviving the Gulag could enhance our Pesach in times of struggle.
