…GO TO THE FAMILY EDITION > Subscribe to our mailing list to receive the weekly parsha commentary. Subscribe Bereishit (Genesis) Genesis, the book of Bereshit, is as its name suggests, about beginnings: the birth of the universe, the origins of humanity, and the first chapters in the story of the people that would be known as Israel or (after the…
…1989). Carol Dweck, Mindset (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007). Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (New York: Penguin Books, 2011). Howard Gardner in collaboration with Emma Laskin, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership (New York: Basic Books, 2011). Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2008). Daniel…
…Hashanah, the first box, itmar Rav veRabbi Chanina amri botlah Megillas Ta’anis. Rabbi Yochanan veRabbi Yehoshua ben Levi amri loh botlah Megillas Ta’anis (Rosh Hashanah 18b). You will know that there was a scroll called Megillat Ta’anit which recorded a series of minor festivals that were associated with the Second Temple period. Nowadays we would call them, days on which…
Koren Publishers have launched a new Magerman edition of the Koren Tanach featuring, for the first time, the complete translation of Chumash by Rabbi Sacks zt”l. You can order your copy here and view the opening pages below. Peek Inside…
If you want to be a great leader in any field, from Prime Minister to parent, it is essential to think long-term. Never choose the easy option because it is simple or fast or yields immediate satisfaction. You will pay a high price in the end….
Moses was the greatest leader because he thought further ahead than anyone else. He knew that real change in human behaviour is the work of many generations. Therefore we must place as our highest priority educating our children in our ideals so that what we begin they will continue until the world changes because we have changed. He knew that…
The best test of a civilisation is to see how it treats children, its own and others’. In an age of broken families, neglected and impoverished children, and worse – the use of children as instruments of war – that is a lesson we still need to learn….
I believe that I am a character in our people’s story, with my own chapter to write, and so are we all. To be a Jew is to see yourself as part of that story, to make it live in our time, and to do your best to hand it on to those who will come after us….
Know your own story, because a story told across the generations is a gift. When you know who you are and why, you can navigate the wilderness of time with courage and confidence….
…or the challenges of the journey. Instead, three times, he talks about the duty of telling our story to our children. Vahaya ki yish’allcha vincha machar (Ex. 13:14)… When your child asks you…v’hayah ki-yomru alaychem b’naychem (Ex. 12:26-27)… when your children say such and such to you… v’higgadeta l’vincha bayom ha’hu (Ex. 13:8)… you shall tell your child on that…