#jonathan sacks

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

never stop asking questions

[eretzyisrael]

[mishpacha]

Why, if things are so good, are they so bad?  The shortest, simplest answer is that we have lost out way.  We have focused on the how but not the why.  In achieving material abundance we have begun to lose our moral and spiritual bearings.  In achieving technical mastery we have lost sight of the question - to what end?  Valuing science at the expense of ethics, we have unparalleled knowledge of what is and unprecedented doubts about what ought to be."

Celebrating Life by Jonathan Sacks; pgs 172-173

[joemerl]

"Crowds are moved by great speakers, but lives are changed by great listeners."

— Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

[readingbooksinisrael]

1kPages March-Day 10

read Love, Creekwood: 115p

continued Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times: 24p

The Proposal: 25p

Total pages read today: 164

Total in all: 1.042

You know what I hate about endings? The way they always feel like we made some tactical error. Like time only passed because we let it.

-Love, Creekwood/Becky Albertalli

He noticed that a significant part of their day was spent talking to one another, but almost none of it took the form of information-exchange. Meaningless of trivial though it seemed this chitchat was preforming an important social function. It was creating a relationship, ‘bonding’.

-Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times/Jonathan Sacks

<Twenty of your minutes until we are served,> Ax said.

-The Proposal/K.A. Applegate

[israelseen1]

Jonathan Sacks z"l - Moving Forwards (Vayechi 5781)

Jonathan Sacks z”l – Moving Forwards (Vayechi 5781)

Jonathan Sacks z”l – Moving Forwards (Vayechi 5781) Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will continue to distribute these weekly essays, so that people all around the world can keep on learning and finding inspiration in his Torah. The book of Bereishit ends on a sublime note of…

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[lioryaakov]

‎The Office of Rabbi Sacks: Vayera 5781 - Answering the Call on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The Office of Rabbi Sacks, Ep Vayera 5781 - Answering the Call - Nov 4, 2020

The last episode of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' podcast.