Tag Archives: Morality & Ethics

A D’var Torah by Rabbi Sacks on Vayakhel-Pekudei in the age of the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LDJDxY-5Rk&feature=youtu.be  TRANSCRIPT – Click here to download as a PDF Friends throughout the world, This is an extraordinary moment for the world, when a virus is sweeping across humanity, bringing it to its knees in a way that the world hasn’t known to quite this extent for 100 years. And who knows whether this new […]

Rabbi Sacks on the coronavirus pandemic (Extended Newsnight interview)

On Tuesday 17th March, Rabbi Sacks was interviewed by Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight about how the themes of his new book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times* relate to the current Coronavirus situation. Please find the full interview below. * You can buy a copy of Rabbi Sacks’ book here (except in the United States or Canada where the […]

Rabbi Sacks: ‘We live in an age of armchair morality’ (published in The Sunday Telegraph)

Lord Sacks says the West is in ‘dark’ times, but has faith that young people – Generation Z – will turn things around By Peter Stanford; first published in The Sunday Telegraph on 8 March 2020 It takes a brave man today to publish a book with the title Morality – or a foolish one. In […]