Tag: courage

No Longer Shall You Be Called Jacob (Vayishlach 5780)

9th December 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! One fact about this week’s parsha has long perplexed the commentators. After his … Read more

30th October 2018

There is a strange passage in the life of Isaac, ominous in its fore- shadowing of much of later Jewish … Read more

6th August 2018

Making a series of programmes for the BBC on morality in the twenty-first century, I felt I had to travel … Read more

27th September 2017

(an extract from the Koren Sacks Yom Kippur Mahzor) The day is intense. The process of preparation and prayer began … Read more

4th May 2016

Some years ago I was visited by the then American ambassador to the Court of St James, Philip Lader. He … Read more

23rd November 2015

It is one of the most enigmatic episodes in the Torah, but also one of the most important, because it … Read more

12th October 2015

For each of us there are milestones on our spiritual journey that change the direction of our life and set … Read more

11th September 2013

I vividly remember the surprise and delight I had when I first read Jane Austen’s Emma. It was the first … Read more

21st July 2012

There have been some splendid books recently on philosophy as a way of life, among them Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote, … Read more

18th June 2011

The spies sent by Moses to explore the land came back with a wholly misleading report. They said “We are … Read more