Tag: from despair to hope

Laban the Aramean (Vayetse 5780)

2nd December 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! The events narrated in this week’s parsha – Jacob’s flight to Laban, his … Read more

20th May 2019

This week we read the Tochecha, the terrifying curses warning of what would happen to Israel if it betrayed its … Read more

13th May 2019

There are, it is sometimes said, no controlled experiments in history. Every society, every age, and every set of circumstances … Read more

20th November 2017

What did Jacob add to the Jewish experience? What is it that we find in him that we do not … Read more

5th June 2017

Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, is remarkable for the extreme realism with which it portrays human character. Its heroes are not … Read more

14th June 2016

There have been times when one passage in today’s parsha was for me little less than life-saving. No leadership position … Read more

1st July 1993

This is the second of five pamphlets written by Rabbi Sacks in 1993. The series is entitled “Studies in Renewal”. … Read more