Tag: holiness

The Ethic of Holiness (Acharei Mot – Kedoshim 5780)

27th April 2020

Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Kedoshim contains the two great love commands of the Torah. The first is, “Love … Read more

25th February 2019

Download the accompanying Family Edition here. In Ki Tissa and in Vayakhel we encounter the figure of Betzalel, a … Read more

11th September 2017

Spiritual Exercise (1/10) Prayer is to the human spirit what exercise is to the human body. I try to … Read more

6th September 2017

As we approach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, join Rabbi Sacks in a series of ten short videos to learn … Read more

5th September 2017

In two sentences in this week’s sedra, the Torah summarises the entire relationship between God and the people of Israel: … Read more

26th June 2017

In his recent bestseller, The Social Animal, New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: We are living in the middle of … Read more

11th May 2017

Alongside the holiness of place and person is the holiness of time, something parshat Emor charts in its deceptively simple … Read more

2nd May 2017

The nineteenth chapter of Vayikra, with which our parsha begins, is one of the supreme statements of the ethics of … Read more

27th February 2017

From here to the end of the book of Exodus the Torah describes, in painstaking detail and great length, the … Read more

10th June 2015

Photo credit: Oren Hayon You are driving ever so slightly above the speed limit. You see a police car in … Read more