Ki Tetse (5768) – Animal Welfare
Today’s sedra with its panolpoly of legislation brings the dream to life. Yes, says Moses in effect: We have left Egypt. We have reached the brink of the promised land. There will be wars to fight,...
View ArticleKi Tetse (5769) – The Parameters Of Justice
In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a law of far-reaching significance: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children who put to death for...
View ArticleKi Tetse (5770) – Rehabilitation of Offenders
This week’s sedra provides us with a fine example of the humanity of Jewish law – as well as the way the sages interpreted the Torah. Our point of departure is this passage: When men have a dispute,...
View ArticleKi Tetse (5771) – Two Types of Hate
It is by any standards a strange, almost incomprehensible law. Here it is in the form it appears in this week’s parsha: Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt....
View ArticleKi Tetse (5772) – Letting Go of Hate
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness . ....
View ArticleKi Tetzei (5773) – The Parameters of Justice
In Deuteronomy 24, we encounter for the first time the explicit statement of a law of far-reaching significance: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children who put to death for...
View ArticleKi Tetzei (5774) – Against Hate
Ki Tetzei contains more laws than any other parsha in the Torah, and it is possible to be overwhelmed by this embarrass de richesse of detail. One verse, however, stands out by its sheer...
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To the Third and Fourth Generations (Ki Teitse 5775)
There is, on the face of it, a fundamental contradiction in the Torah. On the one hand we hear, in the passage known as the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, the following words: The Lord, the Lord,...
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The Limits of Love (Ki Teitse 5776)
In a parsha laden with laws, one in particular is full of fascination. Here it is: If a man has two wives, one loved, the other unloved [senuah, literally “hated”], and both the loved and the unloved...
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Two Types of Hate (Ki Teitse 5777)
It is by any standards a strange, almost incomprehensible law. Here it is in the form it appears in this week’s parsha: Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of...
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Two Types of Hate (Ki Teitse 5777)
It is by any standards a strange, almost incomprehensible law. Here it is in the form it appears in this week’s parsha: Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of...
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Social Capital & Fallen Donkeys (Ki Teitse 5778)
Many years ago, Elaine and I were being driven to the Catskills, a long-time favourite summer getaway for Jews in New York, and our driver told us the following story: One Friday afternoon, he was...
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Animal Welfare (Ki Teitse 5779)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here. Ki Teitse is about relationships: between men and women, parents and children, employers and employees, lenders and borrowers. Strikingly, though, it is...
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C&C Family Edition: Animal Welfare (Ki Teitse 5779)
KI TEITSE: Animal Welfare Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly...
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Does Love Conquer All? (Ki Teitse 5780)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Our parsha contains more laws than any other. Some of them have generated much study and debate, especially two at the beginning, the law of the captive...
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Does Love Conquer All? (Ki Teitse 5780) – Family Edition
Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Ki Teitse. The Family Edition is an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation and is aimed...
View ArticleSpanish: Ki Teitse – Family Edition 5779
Click Here to Download: SPANISH TRANSLATION OF KI TEITSE 5779: FAMILY EDITION ________________ For the Main Edition of this Covenant & Conversation Essay in Spanish, please click here The...
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Against Hate (Ki Teitse 5781)
Ki Teitse contains more laws than any other parsha in the Torah, and it is possible to be overwhelmed by this embarrass de richesse of detail. One verse, however, stands out by its sheer...
View ArticleYeshiva University announces the Sacks Center for Values and Leadership
This week, as the world commemorates the first yahrzeit Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Dr. Ari Berman,...
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Genesis Prize Foundation Honours Rabbi Sacks
The Genesis Prize Foundation honoured the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with the Genesis Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday evening, 22nd November 2021. The award recognises Lord Sacks for his...
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