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Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
It took faith to stay Jewish in the Hellenistic age,
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
The Jews, therefore, stand right at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose.”7
Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion
Justice in the Hebrew Bible is thus more than a matter of law. It restores a broken order.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
In Judaism, faith is not acceptance but protest, against the world that is, in the name of the world that is not yet but ought to be.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Jewish history is a living testimony to the power of ideas,
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
There is the common ground of the common good, and there are the semi-private domains of our diverse religious traditions. We are responsible to society for the former, to our own community for the latter.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
A society must ensure equal dignity – the Hebrew phrase is kavod habriyot, ‘human honour’ – to each of its members.