…Conversation, Bechukotai) On Judaism and Islam (Covenant & Conversation, Chayei Sarah) Particular Paths to a Universal God (Covenant & Conversation, Yitro) Loving the Stranger (Covenant & Conversation, Mishpatim) The Universal and the Particular (Covenant & Conversation, Mikketz) Minority Rights (Covenant & Conversation, Behar) The Home We Build Together (Covenant & Conversation, Terumah) Short Quotes from Rabbi Sacks on Interfaith Dialogue…
…our sins, directly to God, individually and collectively, in the synagogue. Yom Kippur tells us: we each have responsibility. We can each mend some of the broken fragments of the world. And the more we mend, the more we grow. Keter Melucha A Royal Crown בֵּין תְּרוּמָה לְתְּצַוֶּה Between Terumah and Tetzaveh יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת קְצָת מְשֻׁנֶּה A somewhat strange birthday…
More significant than the physical structure of the Tabernacle was its metaphysical structure. The very idea that one can build a home for God seems absurd…The Sanctuary was not a place in which the objective existence of God was somehow more concentrated than elsewhere. Rather, it was a place whose holiness had the effect of opening hearts to the One…
The synagogue: the supreme statement of the idea that if God is everywhere, He can be reached anywhere. I find it moving that the frail structure described in this week’s parsha became the inspiration of an institution that, more than any other, kept the Jewish people alive through almost two thousand years of dispersion – the longest of all journeys…
The paradox of giving is that when we lift something to give to another, it is we ourselves who are lifted. I believe that what elevates us in life is not what we receive but what we give. The more of ourselves that we give, the greater we become….
The effort you put into something does not just change the object: it changes you. The greater the labour, the greater the love for what you have made….
Even a poor person completely dependent on charity is still obliged to give charity. Giving is essential to self-respect. To be in a situation where you can only receive, not give, is to lack human dignity….
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