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  • Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    Series Book 1 - Covenant & Conversation
    This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first time. Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under God's sovereignty. This first volume in the five-volume series includes several concise essays for each parasha of Bereshit. ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • A Letter in the Scroll

    Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion

    by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ...
    For too long, Jews have defined themselves in light of the bad things that have happened to them. And it is true that, many times in the course of history, they have been nearly decimated: when the First and Second Temples were destroyed, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, when Hitler proposed his Final Solution. Astoundingly, the Jewish people have survived catastrophe after catastrophe and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Not in God's Name

    Confronting Religious Violence

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    ***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $14.99 CAD

  • Not Just Good, but Beautiful

    The Complementary Relationship between Man and Woman

    by Pope Francis, Rick Warren, N. T. Wright, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Johann Christoph Arnold ...
    In an unprecedented interreligious conference in November 2014, Pope Francis and four hundred religious leaders and scholars from around the world met in Rome to explore what their diverse faiths teach about marriage and “the complementarity of man and woman.”This book contains the most representative presentations at that closely followed event, Humanum: An International Interreligious Colloquium ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Judaism's Life Changing Ideas

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    What is Judaism? A religion? A faith? A way of life? A set of beliefs? A collection of commands? A culture? A civilization? It is all these, but it is emphatically something more. It is a way of thinking about life, a constellation of ideas. One might think that the ideas Judaism introduced into the world have become part of the common intellectual heritage of humankind, at least of the West. Yet ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

  • Jonathan Sacks Haggada Essays

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth in the United Kingdom offers a refreshing and insightful commentary to the Koren Haggada, together with illuminating essays on the themes and motifs of the Festival of Freedom. Sensitively translated, the traditional texts are carefully balanced alongside the Chief Rabbi's contemporary ideas, in a modern and ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Morality

    Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    A distinguished religious leader's “brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.With liberal democracy embattled, our public discourse growing increasingly toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In* Morality*, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

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  • The Great Partnership

    Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    ***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***Dorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and ExperienceAn impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other—and that the world needs both.“Atheism deserves ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Power of Ideas

    Words of Faith and Wisdom

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made an incalculable contribution not just to the religious life of the Jewish community but to the national conversation - and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Essays on Ethics

    A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    Why was Abraham ordered to sacrifice his son? Was Jacob right in stealing the blessings? Why were we commanded to destroy Amalek? What was Moses’ sin in hitting the rock? And how did the Ten Commandments change the Jewish people, and humankind, for good?Essays on Ethics is the second companion volume to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s celebrated series Covenant & Conversation. Believing the Hebrew Bible to ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • Ceremony & Celebration

    Introduction to the Holidays

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    When did Rosh HaShana, the anniversary of creation, become a day of judgement? How does Yom Kippur unite the priest’s atonement with the prophet’s repentance? What makes Kohelet, read on Sukkot, the most joyful book in the Bible? Why is the remembrance of the Pesah story so central to Jewish morality? And which does Shavuot really celebrate – the law or the land?Bringing together Rabbi Sacks’s ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • Lessons in Leadership

    A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

    by Sacks, Jonathan ...
    In this companion volume to his celebrated series Covenant & Conversation, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mines the weekly Torah portions for insights into the nature of power, authority, and leadership. Based on the understanding that no man is born a leader, the book explores the principles, and perils, of becoming one. Profound, eloquent, and deeply inspiring, Lessons in Leadership reveals the biblical ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD