…give them the chance to show they are capable of great things, and then they must celebrate their achievements. Pekudei: Celebrate Leadership demands two kinds of courage: the strength to take a risk, and the humility to admit when a risk fails. Vayikra: The Sins of a Leader A leader should never try to be all things to all people….
…for Personnel and Development (FCIPD). In 2020, Nicky participated in the first UK cohort of The Growth Project, a leadership programme for charity and business leaders. Nicky Goldman is the Chief Executive of the Jewish Volunteering Network in the UK. < Back to The Sacks Scholars More from Nicky Goldman Covenant & Conversation Family Edition for Vayakhel-Pekudei featuring Nicky Goldman…
…teachings, and wisdom. Taking place at South Hampstead Synagogue, the eighteen ambitious young professionals who are participating in this LSJS programme inspired by the late Chief Rabbi gathered together for the inaugural Shabbaton on parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei, 17-18 March, a week in the Torah cycle where Rabbi Sacks famously taught about the importance of community and the value of coming together…
…here. Rabbosai, Parshat Terumah begins a most extraordinary sequence. Hakamat haMishkan, the building of the first collective House of God, occupies Terumah, Tetzaveh, half of Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, an enormous length – the longest, as it were, single sequence in the Torah. And there is something very strange about it. As the late Nechama Leibowitz, of blessed memory,…
…book of Shemot and spans five parshiyot (Terumah, Tetzaveh, half of Ki Tissa, Vayakhel, and Pekudei). It is interrupted only by the story of the Golden Calf. Why is it so long, and so detailed? In Bereishit, God’s creation of the entire universe is described in just thirty-four verses. Why focus on the Mishkan, which was just a temporary structure…
How do you re-motivate a demoralised people? How do you put the pieces of a broken nation back together again? That was the challenge faced by Moses in this week’s parsha. The key word here is vayakhel, “Moses gathered.” Kehillah means community. A kehillah or kahal is a group of people assembled for a given purpose. That purpose can be…
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…
There is a fascinating feature of the geography of the land of Israel. It contains two seas: the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee is full of life. The Dead Sea, as its name implies, is not. Yet they are fed by the same river, the Jordan. The difference is that the Sea of Galilee…