Covenant and Conversation

Covenant and Conversation
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Maggid
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781592640218

In this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny. Chief Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy, and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under Gods sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant Conversation allows us to experience Chief Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah.

Lessons in Leadership

Lessons in Leadership
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Maggid
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781592644322

In this companion volume to his celebrated series Covenant & Conversation, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mines the weekly Torah portions for insights into the nature of power, authority, and leadership. Based on the understanding that no man is born a leader, the book explores the principles, and perils, of becoming one. Profound, eloquent, and deeply inspiring, Lessons in Leadership reveals the biblical secrets of influence, as relevant now as they were three thousand years ago.

Shiurei HaRav

Shiurei HaRav
Author: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Some twenty years ago, the editors of Hamevaser, Yeshiva University's Torah student monthly, recognized the growing thirst for the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings. In response, they published the original version of this conspectus, containing the first English version of the Rav's Hebrew and Yiddish discourses, with summaries of his shiurim and lectures. This volume substantially builds on that achievement, bringing together nineteen of the Rav's most illuminating works not published elsewhere. Subjects include "The Ten Commandments," "Adam and Eve," "The Unique Experience of Judaism," and "On the Love of Torah."

Essays on Ethics

Essays on Ethics
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Maggid
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781592644490

Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses' sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good? Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's celebrated series Covenant & Conversation. Believing the Hebrew Bible to be the ultimate blueprint for Western morality, Rabbi Sacks embarks upon an ethical exploration of the weekly Torah portion, uncovering its message of truth and justice, dignity and compassion, forgiveness and love.

Morality

Morality
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1541675320

A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.

Two Faiths, One Covenant?

Two Faiths, One Covenant?
Author: Eugene Korn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0742532275

In the twenty-first century, Jews and Christians are challenged to reconsider their theological assumptions by two inescapable truths: the moral tragedy of the holocaust demands that Christian thinkers acknowledge the violent effects of theologically delegitimizing Jews and Judaism, and the pervasive reality of cultural and religious pluralism calls both Christian and Jewish theologians to rethink the covenant in the presence of the Other. Two Faiths, One Covenant? Jewish and Christian Identity in the Presence of the Other is a breakthrough work that embraces this contemporary challenge and charts a path toward fruitful interfaith dialogue. The Christian and Jewish theologians in this book explore the ways that both religions have understood the covenant and reflect on how it can serve as a reservoir for a positive theological relationship between Christianity and Judaism-not merely one of non-belligerent tolerance, but of respect and theological pluralism, however limited.

A Letter in the Scroll

A Letter in the Scroll
Author: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780743267427

The author traces series of philosophical and theological ideas that Judaism has created and shows how they are still relevant in our time.

The Home We Build Together

The Home We Build Together
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0826423493

The Chief Rabbi's thesis on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. A counterweight to his earlier book, The Dignity of Difference, Sacks makes the case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political values.