Thoughts on the weekly Parsha from the Chief Rabbi Sacks
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| Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks / Bereishith5767 | 0:12:05 | 128kbps | 44100 | 11.07 MB | |
 | “And G-d said, let there be . . .And there was . . . And G-d saw that it was good.
Thus unfolds the most revolutionary and the most influential account of creation in the history of the human spirit. Rashi, however, begins his commentary with a remarkable question: "Rabbi Yitzhak said: The Torah should have opened with the verse, 'This month shall be to you the first of months' (Shemot12: 2), which is the first command given to Israel. Why then does it commence with the creation?"
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| Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks / Noach 5767 Covenant & Conversation | 0:08:19 | 128kbps | 44100 | 7.62 MB | |
| “Noah was a righteous man, faultless in his generation. Noah walked with G-d”
Noah is one of the most tantalising figures in the Torah, and nowhere is this more evident than in the first and last glimpses we catch of him in the sedra that bears his name. The opening is full of expectation:
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| Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks / Lech Lecha 5767 | 0:07:58 | 128kbps | 44100 | 7.3 MB | |
| "If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left"
It was the first, but certainly not the last, quarrel over the land. Abraham and Lot have returned to Canaan after their brief exile to Egypt. Abraham "had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold." Lot too had accumulated a large entourage of servants and flocks and herds. The result was conflict:
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| Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks / Chaye Sarah 5767 covenant & Conversation | 0:08:32 | 128kbps | 44100 | 7.82 MB | |
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