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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy is delighted to share 'Chiefly Quotes', an inspirational PDF collection of 1600 quotes collated by Rabbi Johnny Solomon through his research of Rabbi Sacks' canon of written work, and then arranged by theme. You can also find our growing bank of Rabbi Sacks quotes below, and search by keyword, book title, or theme using ...
- Faith
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- Faith
- The Power of Empathy
- Power vs. Influence
- Passing on Values
- Gratitude (Paraphrased by Dr. Noam Weissman)
- Listening
- On The Song “Dayenu”
- Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
- Making Space For Difference
- The Gift of Storytelling
- Israel/Zionism
Rabbi Sacks told a story about the power of empathy: “William Ury, founder of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvellous story in one of his books. A young American, living in Japan to study aikido, was sitting one afternoon in a train in the suburbs of Tokyo. The carriage was half empty. There were some mothers with children, and elder...
“Not all of us have power, but we all have influence. That is why we can each be leaders. The most important forms of leadership come not with position, title or robes of office, not with prestige and power, but with the willingness to work with others to achieve what we cannot do alone… Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change pe...
Rabbi Sacks was a strong proponent of education and ensuring that Jewish ideals are passed on to the next generation: “You achieve immortality not by building pyramids or statues, but by engraving your values on the hearts of your children, and they on theirs, so that our ancestors live on in us and we in our children, and so on until the end of ti...
“Here’s a teaching by Rabbi Sacks I’ve repeated at least 100 times in my career as a Jewish educator. During the repetition of the Amidah (the central Standing Prayer), when there is typically passiveness throughout, when we sit and say “amen” to each blessing, there is only one blessing in which the rabbis declare the passivity to be insufficient....
Rabbi Sacks considered listening not only a religious virtue, but a key leadership skill: “Listening is a profound affirmation of the humanity of the other. In the encounter at the burning bush, when God summoned Moses to be a leader, Moses replied, ‘I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to yo...
“This song is a tikkun, a making-right, for the ingratitude of the Israelites in the wilderness. At almost every stage of the way, they complained: about the water, the food, the difficulties of the journey, the challenge of conquering the land. It is as if the poet were saying: ‘Where they complained, let us give thanks. Each stage was a miracle. ...
Rabbi Sacks explored the connection between antisemitism and anti-Zionism in this video: “Antisemitism is a virus that mutates so that new antisemites can deny that they’re antisemites at all because their hate is different from the old. In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century they were ...
“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God’s image in someone who is not in my image, whose language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.”
Rabbi Sacks taught that the Jewish people are commanded to be a “nation of storytellers”: “The greatest gift we can give our children is not money or possessions, but a story – a real story, not a fantasy, one that connects them to us and to a rich heritage of high ideals… We are heirs to a story that inspired a hundred generations of our ancestors...
“When we consider above all that God has led us ‘upright to our land,’ that there is a Medinat Yisrael[State of Israel] that finally, after the longest exile ever endured by a people, we have a country we can call home, then if we are honest, we know that we have in our time what our grandparents and their grandparents dreamed of, prayed for, but n...
It is a sickness of the soul. Jonathan Sacks. Hate, Believe, Soul. 36 Copy quote. There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. Jonathan Sacks. World, Never Lose Hope, Jew. 7 Copy quote.
In Rabbi Sacks’ piece on Sedra Vayetse, he ended with the words: “ To try, to fall, to fear, and yet to keep going: that is what it takes to be a leader. That was Jacob, the man who at the lowest ebbs of his life had his greatest visions of heaven.”. And that too was Jonathan Sacks.
He said to him: “See how beautiful are My works. All that I have created I have made for you. But be careful that you do not ruin My world, for if you do there is no one else to put right what you have destroyed.”. Surely a moral for our time.”. Our Duty to Preserve Nature, originally published in the JC newspaper in October 1990.
Oct 25, 2021 · Last year, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the U.K. and one of Judaism’s most passionate, eloquent, and influential teachers and thinkers, died from cancer at 72. The piece ...
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15 Sourced Quotes. If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. Jonathan Sacks. Modernity is the transition from fate to choice. Jonathan Sacks. Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual.
